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Subject: Re: substitute for xclip?
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On Tue, Oct 18, 2022 at 11:59 PM Ulli Horlacher
<framstag@rus.uni-stuttgart.de> wrote:
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> With Linux I am using xclip to read the X11 clipboard.
> Is there a cygwin equivalent to read the Windows clipboard?

There are 2 ways to access the clipboard:
1. The commands 'getclip' and 'putclip'
2. Redirection to/from /dev/clipboard