Use Cygwin to talk to the Windows clipboard
$ ls $ touch testfile $ ls testfile $ ls > /dev/clipboard $ cat /dev/clipboard testfile
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You can use multiple field separators by separating them with | (=or). This may be helpful when you want to split a string by two separators for example. #echo "one=two three" | awk -F "=| " {'print $1, $3'} one three
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echo "output something" > /dev/clipboardattempts todo, and will result in a permission error since you cannot remove/replace a virtual file. Appending information to the clipboard withecho "output something" >> /dev/clipboardwill, like a clipboard, also removes what used to be there.