How to copy and paste into PowerShell

How to copy and paste into PowerShell

To copy and paste in Windows PowerShell, you can use the standard keyboard shortcuts for copying and pasting:

• To copy, use Ctrl+C.
• To paste, use Ctrl+V.

For example, you can highlight some text in a PowerShell window, and then press Ctrl+C to copy it. You can then move the cursor to another location in the PowerShell window, and press Ctrl+V to paste the text at that location.

Alternatively, you can use the Copy and Paste commands in PowerShell to copy and paste. To do this, you can use the Copy-Clipboard and Get-Clipboard cmdlets.

For example, to copy some text to the clipboard, you could use the following command:

"Hello, world!" | Copy-Clipboard

This would copy the string "Hello, world!" to the clipboard, so that you could paste it later using the Ctrl+V keyboard shortcut, or by using the Get-Clipboard cmdlet.

To paste the text from the clipboard, you could use the following command:

Get-Clipboard

This would return the text that is currently stored on the clipboard, and you could use the Out-File cmdlet to save it to a file, or the Write-Output cmdlet to display it in the PowerShell window.

Note that the Copy-Clipboard and Get-Clipboard cmdlets are not available in all versions of PowerShell, and they may not work on all systems.

If you're using an older version of PowerShell, or if these cmdlets don't work for you, you can use the Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V keyboard shortcuts instead.