June 15th, 2014

PowerTip: Send Output to Clipboard with PowerShell

Doctor Scripto
Doctor Scripto
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Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to easily send output to the clipboard.

Hey, Scripting Guy! Question How can I easily capture output from the Windows PowerShell console and send it to the Windows Clipboard
          so I can paste it into another program?

Hey, Scripting Guy! Answer The standard Windows utility clip.exe accepts pipeline output, for example:

Get-EventLog application -Newest 1 | clip

Category
Scripting
Topics
PowerTipScripting Guy!Windows PowerShell

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