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Add tip box: output to clipboard via .once |pbcopy #4793

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<img src="/images/cli_docs_output_to_text_editor.jpg" alt="cli_docs_output_to_text_editor" title="Output to text editor" style="width:293px;"/>

> Tip macOS users can copy the results to their clipboards using [`pbcopy`](https://ss64.com/mac/pbcopy.html) by using `.once` to output to `pbcopy` via a pipe: `.once |pbcopy`
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> Combining this with the `.headers off` and `.mode lines` options can be particularly effective.

## Querying the Database Schema

All DuckDB clients support [querying the database schema with SQL]({% link docs/sql/meta/information_schema.md %}), but the CLI has additional [dot commands]({% link docs/clients/cli/dot_commands.md %}) that can make it easier to understand the contents of a database.
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