I wrote this tool today, as I was annoyed having to do a bunch of changes to a configuration file on a client site through a restrictive remote tool that doesn’t let you paste or transfer any files for “security reasons” (read: BOFH)
It pastes text, files and entire directory structures by simulating keyboard input. I found some tools that do stuff like this, but all of them were somewhat shady and closed source. I thought someone else might enjoy this, so here it is.
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Hi,
great script, many thanks, saved me a lot of time! Just what I’ve been looking for!
The only bug is that it does not work with foreign (German) Keyboards where (amongst other things) z and y are swapped. Words like “Lizenz” get typed as Liyeny”. Any chance that this could be remedied?
Hey Barry.
The easiest hack is probably to add your switched characters to the list around line 24 of the script.
I unfortunately can’t spare the time to properly set up a test case and patch this in a nice way right now, but I’d be very happy to look at a pull request if you decide to solve it in a pretty way 🙂
Hi Bolt,
many thanks for your quick reply! I’ll make the code changes and try it out.
I’m not much of a programmer so I can’t improve it or make pull requests (at least not now, maybe some time in the future).
I have a few colleagues who are likewise very impressed with your script, as we all have the same problems as you had, that made you write it!
Best regards,
Barry