TIL: you can pipe to clipboard

RobertKaucherRobertKaucher A cornfield in OhioMember Posts: 4,299 ■■■■■■■■■■
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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...
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  • NotHackingYouNotHackingYou Member Posts: 1,460 ■■■■■■■■□□
    Awesome!!!!
    When you go the extra mile, there's no traffic.
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  • ptilsenptilsen Member Posts: 2,835 ■■■■■■■■■■
    To think of all the time I've wasted text-file redirecting...
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  • undomielundomiel Member Posts: 2,818
    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.
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  • crrussell3crrussell3 Member Posts: 561
    Awesome find!
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  • QordQord Senior Member Member Posts: 632 ■■■■□□□□□□
    Awesome. Most exciting thing so far this week!! (Is that bad?)
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  • SlowhandSlowhand MCSE: Cloud Platform and Infrastructure, MCSA: Windows Server 2003/2012/2016, CCNA Routing & Switchi Bay Area, CaliforniaMod Posts: 5,161 Mod
    That's obscenely useful. Excellent find and thank you for sharing! icon_thumright.gif
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  • AkaricloudAkaricloud Member Posts: 938
    Wow, I can't believe I've never seen this done before. Thanks! That will be extremely useful.
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  • paulgswansonpaulgswanson Member Posts: 311
    What the bleepers! That'll make ping sweeps a bloody breeze!
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  • RobertKaucherRobertKaucher A cornfield in OhioMember Posts: 4,299 ■■■■■■■■■■ 
    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.
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