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.

I’ve just uploaded a new version of ezClip–a small C# utility that provides easy access from the command-line to copy and paste files to and from the clipboard.

This version includes the following improvements:

• Wildcard support (e.g., ‘ezclip copy *.txt’ now works).
• New add command allows you to add to the files you currently have in the clipboard.
• New list command displays a list of the files currently stored in the clipboard.
• Short form commands allows you to use the first letter of each command instead of spelling out the full command name (e.g., ‘ezclip p’ instead of ‘ezclip paste’).

I’ve also shared out the source code as I have in the past. The really cool part about that is that this release was mostly just a matter of integrating changes sent to me by Joel McIntyre, an ezClip user who was nice enough to implement the very useful additions and sent them to me to share with everyone else. Thanks Joel!

You can download ezClip and read more about it here.

Thanks to JWD, the long lost little utility I wrote in 2000 is now once again available. For those that ended up on this page looking for it, just head straight over to the download page to get it. For those that don’t know what NameTag does, it’s just a tiny Win32 C++ application that runs displays the computer’s name on the desktop transparently. It’s been handy for folks who have to manage many machines on a switchbox/labs/VMs/terminal server sessions.