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clip — Copy input content to the Windows clipboard. More information: <https://learn.microsoft.com/windows-

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Problem

How to use the clip command: Copy input content to the Windows clipboard. More information: <https://learn.microsoft.com/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/clip>.

Solution

clip — Copy input content to the Windows clipboard. More information: <https://learn.microsoft.com/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/clip>.

Pipe command-line output to the Windows clipboard:

{{dir}} | clip

Copy the contents of a file to the Windows clipboard:

clip < {{path\to\file.ext}}

Copy text with a trailing newline to the Windows clipboard:

echo {{some text}} | clip

Copy text without a trailing newline to the Windows clipboard:

echo | set /p="some text" | clip

Code Snippets

Pipe command-line output to the Windows clipboard

{{dir}} | clip

Copy the contents of a file to the Windows clipboard

clip < {{path\to\file.ext}}

Copy text with a trailing newline to the Windows clipboard

echo {{some text}} | clip

Copy text without a trailing newline to the Windows clipboard

echo | set /p="some text" | clip

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