jedisct1/piknik

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2516 stars · 104 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Piknik is a command-line tool that securely copies and pastes clipboard content between arbitrary hosts over the network, using end-to-end encryption and a staging server to traverse NAT and firewalls. It supports transferring text, URLs, and files via simple pkc/pkp commands.

Use cases

• copy a code snippet from one machine and paste it on another
• transfer files between hosts without ssh
• share clipboard content across NAT gateways and different networks
• pipe command output between remote machines
• move text between macos, linux, and windows hosts securely

When to choose

• you need ad-hoc clipboard or file transfer between machines without ssh access
• hosts sit behind NAT or firewalls and can reach a shared staging server
• you want end-to-end encrypted transfer where the server cannot read content
• you work across multiple operating systems

When to avoid

• you only need local clipboard management
• you require a gui clipboard sync tool
• you cannot run or reach a staging server
• you need continuous bidirectional clipboard synchronization rather than on-demand copy/paste

Facets

cli-tool · maturity stable

cryptography security cli networking developer-tools security privacy windows bsd cross-platform cli clipboard-sharing end-to-end-encryption staging-server file-transfer go command-line linux macos

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