Get-Clipboard
Gets the current Windows clipboard entry.
Syntax
Default (Default)
Get-Clipboard
[-Format <ClipboardFormat>]
[-TextFormatType <TextDataFormat>]
[-Raw]
[<CommonParameters>]
Description
The Get-Clipboard cmdlet gets the current Windows clipboard entry.
Examples
Example 1: Get the content of the clipboard and display it to the command-line
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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Example 2: Get the content of the clipboard in a specific format
In this example we copied files to the clipboard in Windows Explorerby 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
Parameters
-Format
Specifies the type, or format, of the clipboard. The acceptable values for this parameter are:
- Text
- FileDropList
- Image
- Audio
Parameter properties
| Type: | ClipboardFormat |
| Default value: | None |
| Accepted values: | Text, FileDropList, Image, Audio |
| Supports wildcards: | False |
| DontShow: | False |
Parameter sets
(All)
| Position: | Named |
| Mandatory: | False |
| Value from pipeline: | False |
| Value from pipeline by property name: | False |
| Value from remaining arguments: | False |
-Raw
Indicates that this cmdlet ignores newline characters and gets the entire contents of the clipboard.
Parameter properties
| Type: | SwitchParameter |
| Default value: | None |
| Supports wildcards: | False |
| DontShow: | False |
Parameter sets
(All)
| Position: | Named |
| Mandatory: | False |
| Value from pipeline: | False |
| Value from pipeline by property name: | False |
| Value from remaining arguments: | False |
-TextFormatType
Specifies the text data format type of the clipboard. The acceptable values for this parameter are:
- Text
- UnicodeText
- Rtf
- Html
- CommaSeparatedValue
Parameter properties
| Type: | TextDataFormat |
| Default value: | None |
| Accepted values: | Text, UnicodeText, Rtf, Html, CommaSeparatedValue |
| Supports wildcards: | False |
| DontShow: | False |
Parameter sets
(All)
| Position: | Named |
| Mandatory: | False |
| Value from pipeline: | False |
| Value from pipeline by property name: | False |
| Value from remaining arguments: | False |
CommonParameters
This cmdlet supports the common parameters: -Debug, -ErrorAction, -ErrorVariable, -InformationAction, -InformationVariable, -OutBuffer, -OutVariable, -PipelineVariable, -ProgressAction, -Verbose, -WarningAction, and -WarningVariable. For more information, see about_CommonParameters.