Danny had a good idea on a FriendFeed thread yesterday that I decided to add to ezClip today. His idea was actually having the Windows clipboard available as a device that one can pipe stuff to. The ‘output’ feature I just added sort of comes close to that and I thought it would be useful.
Basically, it saves me from the typical pattern I follow when needing to get the output of something I run on the command-line into an email (e.g., pipe it to a file, open it in notepad, ctrl-a to select all, ctrl-c to copy to clipboard, etc.). Now, I can just type this instead and get the same results: ‘ezclip o dir /b /s’ and happily ctrl-v away.
The latest version can be downloaded from the ezClip page here.
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3 people commented on "ezClip v1.15 — Pipe to clipboard support (of sorts)."
Nice!
When you past from clipboard other than files, does that go to stdout? If so, then you should be able to pipe from ezclip to dos command line apps too.
-Danny
Interesting. I think I understand what you’re asking but correct me if I’m wrong. You’re asking if ezclip will just send the content of the clipboard to stdout if the clipboard contents are not a list of files (i.e., text values but probably not images).
Today, it doesn’t. I think I just paste if it’s a list of files in the clipboard and do nothing otherwise but I’ll think about it some more. I guess this would be to replace the scenario where you’re just pasting something into the command prompt window, correct? Today, I usually just do this by hitting alt+space, ‘e’, ‘p’. Is there another scenario I’m missing that would make this really useful?
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