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Windows: Create Batch file to copy text to clipboard

Here’s how you can create a batch file that will copy a one line text to the clipboard.

  • Open notepad or any text editor
  • Copy the following text into the empty file:
echo|set/p=<text_to_copy>|clip
  • Save the file with a .bat extension. Make sure there is no .txt at the end of it, just .bat.
  • Now, to copy the text, just double click the file from where it is saved. The <text_to_copy>, including the < and > signs, will be copied to the clipboard. You can then just paste the copied text where you want.
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2 responses to “Windows: Create Batch file to copy text to clipboard”

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    Petr Widimský

    I have Windows 7 and I tried exactly this and It just didn´t work and it pasted always the same that I had copied before and not the text I set up in batch. In other words, the batch file does nothing. It launches for just a millisecond the command line, the command line closes itself and I have nothing copied. What am I doing wrong?

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      chanakya2

      Hi Petr,
      Can you paste the contents of your batch file here?

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