November 10th, 2009

Little-known command line utility: clip

Windows Vista includes a tiny command line utility called clip. All it does is paste its stdin onto the clipboard.

dir | clip
echo hey | clip

For the opposite direction, I use a little perl script:

use Win32::Clipboard;
print Win32::Clipboard::GetText();

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Raymond has been involved in the evolution of Windows for more than 30 years. In 2003, he began a Web site known as The Old New Thing which has grown in popularity far beyond his wildest imagination, a development which still gives him the heebie-jeebies. The Web site spawned a book, coincidentally also titled The Old New Thing (Addison Wesley 2007). He occasionally appears on the Windows Dev Docs Twitter account to tell stories which convey no useful information.

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