Commands / Text and objects

PS> Get-Clipboard

Works on

WindowsLinuxmacOS

PowerShell

5.1 and later

Reference

Microsoft Learn: Get-Clipboard

• PowerShell 7 Works on Linux (needs xclip) and macOS as well as Windows.

Returns the clipboard text, one line per string. Handy for cleaning up a list someone pasted you in chat.

Try this

Copy a list of names, then remove blanks and duplicates and put it back:

Get-Clipboard |
    ForEach-Object { $_.Trim() } |
    Where-Object { $_ } |
    Sort-Object -Unique |
    Set-Clipboard

Coming from another shell

More in From bash and From cmd.

Related commands

• Set-Clipboard Copy output to the clipboard
• Add-Content Append text to a file
• Out-GridView Browse and filter results in a window
• Set-Content Overwrite a text file
• Write-Output Print a message (Write-Output vs Write-Host)

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