Clip

Applies To: Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2003 with SP1, Windows Server 2003 with SP2

Redirects command output from the command line to the Clipboard.

clip

• /?
  Displays help at the command prompt.

• You can use clip to copy data directly into any application, such as Word, that can receive text from the Clipboard.

To copy the list of contents in the c:\Windows folder to the Clipboard, at the C:\Windows prompt type:

dir|clip

To paste what you have copied into a WordPad document, start WordPad (or a similar text editor), click Edit, and then click Paste (or right-click, and then click Paste). The following text appears:

  Volume in drive C has no label.
  Volume Serial Number is B446-4F14
  
  Directory of C:\Windows
  
05/22/2001 11:00 AM    <DIR>          .
05/22/2001 11:00 AM    <DIR>          ..
05/22/2001 11:14 AM    <DIR>          Ntsd
              0 File(s)              0 bytes
  3 Dir(s)   1,292,802,048 bytes free

To copy the contents of Readme.txt to the Clipboard, type:

clip < readme.txt

To copy the output of the Generic.awk program to the Clipboard, type:

awk -f generic.awk input.txt | clip

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