Pasting a remote file into your local clipboard (* mouse not required)

So, I'm updating a configuration file on a remote server (using MobaXterm), and I need to copy the contents into some Trello documentation running in a browser on my local Windows machine.

The old fashioned way to do it is to select it with the mouse (which MobaXterm interprets as copying to my Windows clipboard), then Shift+Insert it into the browser. Well, turns out you can use the command line:

[Bishop@Cygwin]$ ssh user@host "< /path/to/file" | clip

On Windows, clip is a program to read from standard in and put into the Windows clipboard. On Mac OSX, replace clip with pbcopy for the same effect.

You could extend this approach: instead returning the whole file, return the result of a pipe line. Neat. Like magic, no more mouse needed.

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Bypassing private and protected visibility in PHP

Members declared protected can be accessed only within the class itself and by inherited classes. Members declared as private may only be accessed by the class that defines the member.

PHP documentation on property visibility

This is true only in an academic sense: code outside the object can still get and set private and protected members. As usual in PHP, all it takes is a little magic.

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