I was thinking today (rare occasion) and realized I could also just add support for actually piping data into ezclip.exe directly. I went ahead and coded it up and there’s a new version of ezClip available now that supports it. I think this method is how I’ll be using it more often than the version of a similar feature I added yesterday.

Assuming ezclip.exe lives somewhere in your %path% environment variable, one can now type something like ‘dir /s /b | ezclip’ and the output of the dir command will directly be copied to the clipboard.

You can get the latest version from the ezClip page as usual.

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.

Unfortunately, the good folks at Netflix have decided to cut their Netflix Profiles feature (the one I talked about on this post over three years ago–also describes how we used it to this day). Pretty unfortunate as it was definitely a useful feature for those that used it as it was meant to be used (different members of your family could have their own “queues”) and for the many who used it like we did. It’s rare to see a feature get cut after being out for so long and the customer reactions to it seem to tell the story. Hard call though I’m still hoping they might change their mind…

Update [7.6.08]: They’ve changed their minds. =)