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Copy to clipboard using Bash for Windows

How do I copy results from the commandline directly to the clipboard?

On Windows's cmd.exe I can do simply echo "asd" | clip and it pipes output to the clipboard.

I tried to install xclip for that, and though it compiled, when called it prints:

Error: Can't open display: (null)

Using mouse is not the solution.

Solution

  • In Build 14393 or later, if you want to copy something to clipboard in WSL console, just add '.exe' to what you do in Windows cmd.

    echo "aaa"|clip.exe

    To read from clipboard:

    powershell.exe -command "Get-Clipboard"