Copy a whole text into clipboard

[russs]

Hello,

I want to copy a whole text (with many lines) into clipboard.

I have succeeded to copy a 1-line text with the following batch:

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echo my text | clip

This puts "my text" into the clipboard, the problem is I want a much longer text (a paragraph with many lines) to be copied to the clipboard, can you please help ?

Thank you in advance

[dbenham]

Presumably you have multiple lines of code that generate the text. You just need to make sure that all of the text that is to be captured is directed to the clipboard with the same pipe.

This is trivial if you have a batch file that generates the text. Simply call the batch file and pipe the output

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mybatch|clip

If you want to capture the output of some block of code within a batch file, just enclose the block in parentheses:

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(
  echo line1
  echo line2
)|clip

Bear in mind that if you use variable expansion and the variable is set within the block, then you will need to use delayed expansion because the entire block will be expanded prior to any execution if you use normal % expansion.


Dave Benham

[russs]

Thank you Dave, that worked !