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TIL: you can pipe to clipboard
RobertKaucher
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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.
Wow. I wish I had known this 4 years ago...
C:\Users\rkaucher>ipconfig | clipOr in PowerShell
PS C:\Windows\system32> Get-ChildItem | clip
Wow. I wish I had known this 4 years ago...
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Optionsptilsen Member Posts: 2,835 ■■■■■■■■■■To think of all the time I've wasted text-file redirecting...
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Optionsundomiel Member Posts: 2,818Nice 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.Jumping on the IT blogging band wagon -- http://www.jefferyland.com/
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Optionscrrussell3 Member Posts: 561Awesome find!MCTS: Windows Vista, Configuration
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OptionsQord Member Posts: 632 ■■■■□□□□□□Awesome. Most exciting thing so far this week!! (Is that bad?)
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OptionsSlowhand Mod Posts: 5,161 ModThat's obscenely useful. Excellent find and thank you for sharing!
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OptionsAkaricloud Member Posts: 938Wow, I can't believe I've never seen this done before. Thanks! That will be extremely useful.
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Optionspaulgswanson Member Posts: 311What the bleepers! That'll make ping sweeps a bloody breeze!http://paulswansonblog.wordpress.com/
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OptionsRobertKaucher Member 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.