kpym / windows-paste

The code (and the binaries) for the missing command line paste from the Windows clipboard

Cut [ctrl-x], Copy [ctrl-c] and Paste [ctrl-v] from command line

This repo contains code inspired by the original source code from Joel 'Jaykul' Bennett's post on huddledmasses.org

• ctrl-x.exe is (almost) the same as clip.exe (available in Windows) : paste piped text (and/or the parameters) to the clipboard
• ctrl-c.exe (missing in Windows) is same as ctrl-x.exe but also print to the standard output the piped text
• ctrl-v.exe (missing in Windows, except in PowerShell) paste the clipboard to the console

How to compile this code

csc ctrl-x.cs
csc ctrl-c.cs
csc ctrl-v.cs

The C# compiler is available in the .Net Framework. For example for the version 3.5 its default path is C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v3.5\csc.exe

PowerShell vs cmd

If you use PowerShell this program will be probably useless for you as there are Get-Clipboard and Set-Clipboard that are more powerful than ctrl-v and ctrl-x.

If you need to use cmd, GitBash or some other shell, than it can be useful to have them.

ctrl-v vs Joel 'Jaykul' Bennett's paste

• paste read and write lines, so there is always \n at the end of the text, and all the line endings are Windows standardized
• ctrl-v read the entire clipboard and write it as it is