Sending cygwin output to the Windows clipboard

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echo “This goes to the clipboard” > /dev/clipboard

It’s that simple… usually. For some reason some program output going to STDOUT doesn’t end up there. There is a simple fix, that being to pipe it through cat first:

echo “This goes to the clipboard” | cat > /dev/clipboard

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