Clipboard Tool for Windows

This project provides a set of command-line utilities for interacting with the clipboard on Windows systems. Windows does not offer a comprehensive tool for reading the clipboard, with the default clip.exe utility only allowing you to copy content to the clipboard, but not read it. This set of tools includes the following:

• win-clip.exe: A full-featured tool that can both read from and write to the clipboard.
• get-clip.exe: A specialized tool for reading from the clipboard and outputting the contents to a file or stdout.
• set-clip.exe: A specialized tool for writing contents from a file or stdin to the clipboard.

Assumes the input/output text is UTF-8 encoded.

Installation

There are two ways to install this tool:

1. Download the provided binaries:

   • You can simply copy the precompiled binaries into any directory which is in your system's PATH.

2. Build the project:

   • Run the build.bat script to compile the program. This will generate the necessary binaries.
   • Copy the binaries into any directory which is in your system's PATH.

Once installed, the tools should be accessible from the command line.

Usage

win-clip.exe

win-clip.exe is the base program that can both read from and write to the clipboard. It supports the following options:

Examples:

• To copy the contents of a file to the clipboard:

  win-clip -i myfile.txt

• To read the contents of stdin pass a "-" as filename

  echo hi | win-clip -i -

• To read the clipboard and save the content to a file:

  win-clip -o output.txt

• To write the contents of the clipboard to stdout pass a "-" as the filename

  win-clip -o -

get-clip.exe

get-clip.exe reads the clipboard and writes the content to stdout or a specified file.

Examples:

• To read from the clipboard and print to stdout:

  get-clip

• To read from the clipboard and save to a file:

  get-clip output.txt

set-clip.exe

set-clip.exe writes content from a file or stdin to the clipboard.

Examples:

• To copy the contents of a file to the clipboard:

  set-clip myfile.txt

• To copy content from stdin to the clipboard:

  echo "Hello, Clipboard!" | set-clip