How to copy the contents of a file and paste in an editor elsewhere?

[mastermel]

Sorry if this has already been described somewhere. I'm new to cb and have read through the project, documentation, and these discussions without landing on what I'm looking for.

From a Debian-based system (currently PopOS) using X11, I'd like to use cb to copy the contents of text-based files from my terminal so that I can paste that content into other applications. For example I've attempted to do cb copy ./my-file.sql and then go into a tool like DBeaver and use Ctrl + V to paste the content, and instead just get /run/user/1000/Clipboard/0/data/7/my-file.sql pasted.

I've also experimented with doing something like cb copy < ./my-file.sql and cat ./my-file.sql | cb copy, and it seems to work, but perhaps due to the amount of lines or fancy characters in my SQL file, it gives a strange output and results in nothing being placed on my X11 clipboard. The strange output I'm seeing is:

❯ cat ./my-file.sql | cbc
 ✔  Copied 436.14kB
/usr/include/c++/13.2.0/span:282: constexpr std::span<_Type, _Extent>::element_type& std::span<_Type, _Extent>::operator[](size_type) const [with _Type = const unsigned char; long unsigned int _Extent = 18446744073709551615; reference = const unsigned char&; size_type = long unsigned int]: Assertion '__idx < size()' failed.

I'm sure there's some simple way to accomplish what I'm after. Any advice or direction?