Command Window Output to Clipboard in Vista
Mar 18th, 2008 by Chris Thornton
Technology is advancing more and more everyday. With thousands of programmers working to innovate how we access the internet and how we communicate, we are able to do more things. You can keep up to date with the world of technology at Midas Letter Technology Stock and also learn more about the clipboard update in Vista and how to use it. Vista includes a program: clip.exe which will direct standard command prompt (DOS prompt) output to the clipboard. Just “pipe” or “here document” to clip.exe and the result goes to the clipboard.
- ex: echo “hello, world!” | clip
- ex: dir | clip
- ex: clip < readme.txt
Again, this is available on Vista. If you are using older versions of Windows, you can use our Dos2Clip program, which will do the same thing, but only with one line. You can get it here, and it’s free to use.
