Set clipboard to image - pbcopy

Question

How do you set an image as the clipboard with pbcopy?

This doesn\'t work:

cat image.png | pbcopy

Answer 1

From the documentation:

The input is placed in the pasteboard as ASCII data unless it begins with the Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) file header or the Rich Text Format (RTF) file header, in which case it is placed in the pasteboard as one of those data types.

It doesn't sound like image data is supported, so it won't work.