Copy a string to clipboard from Mac OS command line

Question

is there a way to copy a string to clipboard from command line?

To be more specific, I want to make a script which copies my email address to clipboard, so that when I n

Answer 1

echo 'your-email@example.com' | pbcopy (as @Jonathan Leffler stated above)

Or see the answer for the related question on piping to clipboard on different operating systems: Pipe to/from the clipboard in Bash script