Written by • June 22, 2016• 5:50 pm• Microsoft, Microsoft Azure, PowerShell, Virtualization, Windows, Windows Server

Pipe cmd prompt commands into the clipboard

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This is a very all but very useful command if you work with the Windows Command Prompt. This allows you to output text from commands into the Windows clipboard.

 
dir | clip

Scott Hanselman from Microsoft just reminded the community about this feature, which is available in Windows since Windows Vista.

PowerShell v5 got some similar command using Set-Clipboard and Get-Clipboard.

 
Set-Clipboard
 
Get-Clipboard

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