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Piping command-line output directly to the Clipboard with .NET - now THAT'S useful

Posted 2004-09-09 02:39 PM in Programming.

I was talking to Jason Whittington the DM Smartie today and he told me an interesting anecdote about he and Mike Woodring.  The result is this riduclously short C# application that lets you do this:

 c:\>type filename | clipboard

Now THAT'S hot.  As I am a command-line fellow and will gladly take the Pepsi Challenge against any of you "all windows move-em around" fools, I appreciate such useful things. 

Now, go to Jason's site and see how he and Mike did it - then slap your forehead and go Doh!



Thursday, September 09, 2004 2:46:05 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
"all windows move-em around fools" LOL

Great find, BTW. How in the world has this not been included functionality in Windows? Doh indeed!
Jeff Key
Saturday, September 11, 2004 4:14:03 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
Or even more to the point... why did it take so long for someone to think of doing this? I'm a keyboard junkie too, why didn't I think of it? :)
Peter Provost
Saturday, September 11, 2004 11:52:56 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
Very cool. one less reason for me to use notepad :-)
Ian
Saturday, September 11, 2004 11:53:22 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
And yeah, this REALLY should be in the next cmd shell
Ian
Wednesday, September 15, 2004 1:29:34 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
Mac OS X's had this since it was created:

cat x.txt | pbcopy

There's also a pbpaste that's less obviously useful.
Bill Brown
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