Can I Copy Script Output to the Clipboard?

re: Can I Copy Script Output to the Clipboard?

Naif — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 01:41:17 GMT

Awesome1

re: Can I Copy Script Output to the Clipboard?

benj9 — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 13:11:29 GMT

Instead of the IE I like it more to call a HTA to set the clipboard. It's fast and reliable and does not spam us with a commit dialog.

Here an example script. The function 'SetClipboard' itself just creates a temporary HTA (if it's not already there, and passes the new clipboard content by command line argument.

Set oFs = CreateObject("Scripting.FilesystemObject")

Set oWsh = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")

SetClipboard "Hello Clipboard"

WScript.Echo GetClipboard()

WScript.Quit

Sub SetClipboard(sText)

Dim sFile, oFile

sFile = oWsh.ExpandEnvironmentStrings("%TEMP%")

If sFile = "%TEMP%" Then sFile = "."

sFile = sFile & "\~SetClipboard.hta"

WScript.Echo sFile

If Not oFs.FileExists(sFile) Then

Set file = oFs.CreateTextFile(sFile, True)

file.WriteLine "<HTA:APPLICATION id=c APPLICATIONNAME=/><SCRIPT language=VBScript>" _

& "document.parentwindow.clipboardData.SetData ""text""," _

& "Right(C.commandLine,Len(c.commandLine)-InStr(2,c.commandLine,Chr(34))-1):window.close" _

& "</SCRIPT></HTA:APPLICATION>"

file.Close : Set file = Nothing

End If

oWsh.Run sFile & " " & sText, 0, True

End Sub

Function GetClipboard()

GetClipboard = CreateObject("htmlfile").ParentWindow.ClipboardData.GetData("text")

End Function

re: Can I Copy Script Output to the Clipboard?

Ed Wilson — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 19:07:55 GMT

@JeremyEngleWork you are welcome.

re: Can I Copy Script Output to the Clipboard?

JeremyEngelWork — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 19:01:01 GMT

Hey thanks, Ed! I learned something new today!

re: Can I Copy Script Output to the Clipboard?

Ed Wilson — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 17:55:52 GMT

@T Luke you can use the clip.exe program that is part of the operating system. In Windows PowerShell it is as simple as this:

"Copy this string to the clipboard" | clip

Using VBScript, you will need to create the wshshell object and use the exec method to start clip, and then play around with stdin to get your input. But it can be done ... Nowdays, attempting to automate IE is a hit or miss proposition due to all the security changes -- this particular article was written more than 7 years ago.

re: Can I Copy Script Output to the Clipboard?

T Luke — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 17:41:09 GMT

Is there a way to do this without IE?

re: Can I Copy Script Output to the Clipboard?

Manfred88 — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:52:36 GMT

Hello, Script Guy!

I want to send my highlighted lines to the ClipBoard.

I want to do it as one of my steps inside a VBS script.

I cannot use the common Ctrl+C.

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Is it at all possible ?

Manfred Lutz.

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