TIL: you can pipe to clipboard

RobertKaucher

I consider myself well-versed in the Windows command line and PowerShell, but today I learned that you can pipe commands to a little known application called clip that puts the output into the clipboard.

C:\Users\rkaucher>ipconfig | clip

Or in PowerShell

PS C:\Windows\system32> Get-ChildItem | clip

Wow. I wish I had known this 4 years ago...

NotHackingYou

Awesome!!!!

ptilsen

To think of all the time I've wasted text-file redirecting...

undomiel

Nice find, I definitely wish I had known this earlier. It'll clean up a lot of those text files I scatter around with long command outputs.

crrussell3

Awesome find!

Qord

Awesome. Most exciting thing so far this week!! (Is that bad?)

Slowhand

That's obscenely useful. Excellent find and thank you for sharing!

Akaricloud

Wow, I can't believe I've never seen this done before. Thanks! That will be extremely useful.

paulgswanson

What the bleepers! That'll make ping sweeps a bloody breeze!

RobertKaucher

C:\Users\Bob>clip /?


CLIP


Description:
    Redirects output of command line tools to the Windows clipboard.
    This text output can then be pasted into other programs.


Parameter List:
    /?                  Displays this help message.


Examples:
    DIR | CLIP          Places a copy of the current directory
                        listing into the Windows clipboard.


    CLIP < README.TXT   Places a copy of the text from readme.txt
                        on to the Windows clipboard.

Reading contents of a file is pretty cool as well.