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date 2010-0-30
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title Cygwin treats the Windows Clipboard like a file

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In Linux every thing is a file. This is great because it means the Windows clipboard is a file too!

Want to copy the current cygwin directory into your clipboard?

code
 pwd > /dev/clipboard

Want to print the contents of the clipboard?

code
 cat /dev/clipboard

# Notes

1. <a href="http://williammitchell.blogspot.com/2008/03/fun-with-cygwins-devclipboard.html">Fun with Cygwin's /dev/clipboard</a>.

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