Since the pasteboard plugin isn’t supporting OSX builds yet - I figured out another way to copy/paste strings to/from the pasteboard. You can find it here:
https://code.coronalabs.com/code/pasteboard-copypaste-string-mac-osx-builds
@ojnab - this is awesome and came in handy big time for me this week. One suggestion, though: As written, your code doesn’t play nice with strings that include single-quotes. I made one small modification that (in my testing) makes it work as expected with strings that include single-quotes, double-quotes, or a combination of both.
Just change line 11 to this:
os.execute( [[echo "]]..string.gsub(s, '"', '\\"')..[[" | pbcopy]] )
And it should be good to go. I would also echo Perry’s comment that this module is ripe for a plugin implementation. 
Your quoting foo is strong but not invincible. Your change will indeed work with single quotes but not protect $ signs (and some other shell punctuation such as backquotes).
Single quotes are the way to go and the way to escape single quotes in a single-quoted string is to replace them with ‘\’’ (for reasons which are beyond the scope of this post).
So the code should be:
os.execute( [[echo ']]..string.gsub(s, "'", "'\\''")..[[' | pbcopy]] )
Test case and result:
s = "\"Bob\" says that will be $5.50 for the 'unique' item" -- "Bob" says that will be $5.50 for the 'unique' item@Perry - you are 2 for 2 today, sir! Amazing replies to both my forum posts today (https://forums.coronalabs.com/topic/59624-support-for-drag-file-onto-desktop-app-icon/) - you just might have a box 'o cookies in your future my good man. 
Thanks! @ Schroderapps and Perry
I forgot to take quotes into consideration because it wasn’t necessary for my project.
I will update the gist code as you suggested and consider doing a plugin when I find the time.
And yes the drag file feature is very nice. Thumbs up Perry.
@ojnab - this is awesome and came in handy big time for me this week. One suggestion, though: As written, your code doesn’t play nice with strings that include single-quotes. I made one small modification that (in my testing) makes it work as expected with strings that include single-quotes, double-quotes, or a combination of both.
Just change line 11 to this:
os.execute( [[echo "]]..string.gsub(s, '"', '\\"')..[[" | pbcopy]] )
And it should be good to go. I would also echo Perry’s comment that this module is ripe for a plugin implementation.
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Your quoting foo is strong but not invincible. Your change will indeed work with single quotes but not protect $ signs (and some other shell punctuation such as backquotes).
Single quotes are the way to go and the way to escape single quotes in a single-quoted string is to replace them with ‘\’’ (for reasons which are beyond the scope of this post).
So the code should be:
os.execute( [[echo ']]..string.gsub(s, "'", "'\\''")..[[' | pbcopy]] )
Test case and result:
s = "\"Bob\" says that will be $5.50 for the 'unique' item" -- "Bob" says that will be $5.50 for the 'unique' item
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@Perry - you are 2 for 2 today, sir! Amazing replies to both my forum posts today (https://forums.coronalabs.com/topic/59624-support-for-drag-file-onto-desktop-app-icon/) - you just might have a box 'o cookies in your future my good man.
Thanks! @ Schroderapps and Perry
I forgot to take quotes into consideration because it wasn’t necessary for my project.
I will update the gist code as you suggested and consider doing a plugin when I find the time.
And yes the drag file feature is very nice. Thumbs up Perry.