CLIP.EXE – copy text from command line to clipboard

Copy Output from Command Line Applications to the Clipboard

To copy text from a command to the clipboard, we’ll just pipe it into the clip command, like this:

For example, if you wanted to output from the echo command into the clipboard, you could do this:

You can also use redirection to send a text file directly into the clip utility, like this:

clip < filename.txt

In this example I’m gonna put the contents of the single.php file onto the clipboard:

Of course, you could also use the type command and then pipe it to the clipboard like so:

(source howtogeek)