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Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Management.dll-Help.xml
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Microsoft.PowerShell.Management
09/21/2020
2.0.0
Get-Clipboard

Get-Clipboard

SYNOPSIS

Gets the contents of the clipboard.

SYNTAX

Get-Clipboard [-Raw] [<CommonParameters>]

DESCRIPTION

This cmdlet is not supported on macOS.

The Get-Clipboard cmdlet gets the contents of the clipboard as text. Multiple lines of text are returned as an array of strings similar to Get-Content.

[!NOTE] On Linux, this cmdlet requires the xclip utility to be in the path.

EXAMPLES

Example 1: Get the content of the clipboard and display it to the command-line

In this example we have copied the text "hello" into the clipboard.

Get-Clipboard
hello

PARAMETERS

-Raw

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

CommonParameters

This cmdlet supports the common parameters: -Debug, -ErrorAction, -ErrorVariable, -InformationAction, -InformationVariable, -OutVariable, -OutBuffer, -PipelineVariable, -Verbose, -WarningAction, and -WarningVariable. For more information, see about_CommonParameters.

INPUTS

OUTPUTS

System.String

NOTES

RELATED LINKS

Set-Clipboard