From: Sam Edge <sam.edge.cygwin@gmx.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: substitute for xclip?
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2022 08:54:08 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ef7a1d06-71a7-00ca-d947-d16276e8d0a7@gmx.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8819f31f-3e53-001a-e16a-03ae500e2f70@gmx.com>
H again.
Or you can use:-
#!/bin/bash
shopt -s lastpipe
powershell -command Get-Clipboard | mapfile array_variable
for multiline.
--
Sam Edge
On 19/10/2022 08:44, Sam Edge wrote:
> Hi there.
>
> In the absence of a Cygwin-native utility, how about?
>
> x="$(powershell -command Get-Clipboard)"
>
> You can pipe to the Windows 'clip' utility to go the other way or use
> 'powershell -command Set-Clipboard'.
>
> But I agree, a Cygwin utility would be nice, unless there already is one?
>
> --
> Sam Edge
>
> On 19/10/2022 07:58, Ulli Horlacher wrote:
>> With Linux I am using xclip to read the X11 clipboard.
>> Is there a cygwin equivalent to read the Windows clipboard?
>>
>> My use case is:
>> The user copies file names to the clipboard and then starts a program
>> which processes these files.
>>
>>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-10-19 7:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-10-19 6:58 Ulli Horlacher
2022-10-19 7:44 ` Sam Edge
2022-10-19 7:54 ` Sam Edge [this message]
2022-10-19 9:01 ` Backwoods BC
2022-10-19 11:56 ` Sam Edge
2022-10-19 12:58 ` Ulli Horlacher
2022-10-19 22:52 ` Oliver Schoede
2022-10-20 7:27 ` Sam Edge
2022-10-20 8:12 ` Backwoods BC
2022-10-20 3:23 ` Thomas Wolff
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