external help file | Locale | Module Name | ms.date | online version | schema | title |
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Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Management.dll-Help.xml |
en-US |
Microsoft.PowerShell.Management |
01/08/2023 |
2.0.0 |
Get-Clipboard |
Gets the current Windows clipboard entry.
Get-Clipboard [-Format <ClipboardFormat>] [-TextFormatType <TextDataFormat>] [-Raw] [<CommonParameters>]
The Get-Clipboard
cmdlet gets the current Windows clipboard entry. Multiple lines of text are
returned as an array of strings similar to Get-Content
.
In this example we have right-clicked on an image in a browser and chose the Copy action. The following command displays the link, as a URL, of the image that is stored in the clipboard.
Get-Clipboard
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In this example we copied files to the clipboard in Windows Explorer by selecting them and pressing Ctrl-C. Using the following command, you can access the contents of the clipboard as a list of files:
Get-Clipboard -Format FileDropList
Directory: C:\Git\PS-Docs\PowerShell-Docs\wmf
Mode LastWriteTime Length Name
---- ------------- ------ ----
-a---- 5/7/2019 1:11 PM 10010 TOC.yml
-a---- 11/18/2016 10:10 AM 53 md.style
-a---- 5/6/2019 9:32 AM 4177 overview.md
-a---- 6/28/2018 2:28 PM 345 README.md
Specifies the type, or format, of the clipboard. The acceptable values for this parameter are:
- Text
- FileDropList
- Image
- Audio
Type: Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.ClipboardFormat
Parameter Sets: (All)
Aliases:
Accepted values: Text, FileDropList, Image, Audio
Required: False
Position: Named
Default value: None
Accept pipeline input: False
Accept wildcard characters: False
Gets the entire contents of the clipboard. Multiline text is returned as a single multiline string rather than an array of strings.
Type: System.Management.Automation.SwitchParameter
Parameter Sets: (All)
Aliases:
Required: False
Position: Named
Default value: None
Accept pipeline input: False
Accept wildcard characters: False
Specifies the text data format type of the clipboard. The acceptable values for this parameter are:
- Text
- UnicodeText
- Rtf
- Html
- CommaSeparatedValue
Type: System.Windows.Forms.TextDataFormat
Parameter Sets: (All)
Aliases:
Accepted values: Text, UnicodeText, Rtf, Html, CommaSeparatedValue
Required: False
Position: Named
Default value: None
Accept pipeline input: False
Accept wildcard characters: False
This cmdlet supports the common parameters: -Debug, -ErrorAction, -ErrorVariable, -InformationAction, -InformationVariable, -OutVariable, -OutBuffer, -PipelineVariable, -Verbose, -WarningAction, and -WarningVariable. For more information, see about_CommonParameters.
You can't pipe objects to this cmdlet.
Windows PowerShell includes the following aliases for Get-Clipboard
:
gcb