PowerShell v2 one-liner to get clipboard text

by oising 10. August 2008 15:36

With PowerShell’s new –STA startup switch, interacting with the Windows Forms object model was never so easy:

PS> $text = & {powershell –sta {add-type –a system.windows.forms; [windows.forms.clipboard]::GetText()}}

Easy, eh?

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Monad | PowerShell | PowerShell 2.0

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