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Pipe contents of windows clipboard to another command

Usage

To pipe the contents of the clipboard to another command (e.g. grep):

paste | grep pattern

To save the contents of the clipboard to a file:

paste > file.txt

Building

You can compile paste.cs with a single command on any Windows machine without the need to install any extra tools. Just run this command:

%SystemRoot%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v3.5\csc /o paste.cs

Prebuild version is included here as paste.zip

Installing

Put the resulting paste.exe in your path.

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paste.cs
using System;
using System.Windows.Forms;
namespace jpf {
class paste {
[STAThread]
public static int Main(string[] args) {
Console.Write(Clipboard.GetText());
return 0;
}
}
}
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