Send command output to the Windows clipboard with clip command in Vista
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Vista comes with a command-line utility clip.exe that can be used to redirect or pipe the output of another command to the Windows clipboard. The command uses a “pipe” and has the form
somecommand | clip
For example, to send a directory listing to the clipboard, the command is
dir | clip
Place the contents of a text file into the Windows clipboard with clip
The utility clip.exe can also be used to read a text file and place its contents in the Windows clipboard. The command has the form
clip < somefile.txt
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