Suggestion: a clipboard manager

[lenormf]

Hi,

It’d be nice to have a utility that allows interacting with the host clipboard in a UNIX-y manner: read on stdin via pipe, via redirection etc.

Thanks!

[patrick330602]

Have you tried using clip.exe on WSL? Technically saying this should just work and do not need any wrapper

[lenormf]

Yes, one example of why a wrapper that follows UNIX conventions would be that echo text | clip.exe doesn’t work.

[kforeverisback]

I use a bash function clip which converts the line-ending to Windows and copies to the clipboard.

clip () {
        local clip_path=/mnt/c/Windows/System32/Clip.exe
        local in=$1
        [ ! -f ${clip_path} ] && echo "${clip_path} binary not found" && return 1
        [ -z "$in" ] && in=`cat`
        echo ${in} | sed 's#\n$#\r\n#g' | ${clip_path}
}

[patrick330602]

I use a bash function clip which converts the line-ending to Windows and copies to the clipboard.

clip () {
        local clip_path=/mnt/c/Windows/System32/Clip.exe
        local in=$1
        [ ! -f ${clip_path} ] && echo "${clip_path} binary not found" && return 1
        [ -z "$in" ] && in=`cat`
        echo ${in} | sed 's#\n$#\r\n#g' | ${clip_path}
}

The script you provided hangs for me interestingly