Just Make a Qr Code
I often find myself needing to send little pieces of information: urls, passwords, etc. to my phone, and I suddenly thought this was a nice way to do it.
$ put | uvx qr
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put1 is a little alias that outputs whatever I've copied to my clipboard, and uvx2 installs and runs commands from python packages - in this case qr from qrcode. Then I can open my phone camera, and grab the data onto my phone.
For passwords I found that I needed to remove the newline using tr. Be careful that no one else can see or scan your screen!
$ pass "<account_name_here>" | tr -d '\n' | uvx qr
If you find this useful, you can also install qr using uv to make the process even easier:
uv tool install qr
put | qr
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alias put='xclip -selection clipboard -o'↩