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clip: Copy text without a trailing newline to the Windows clipboard.

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$ echo | set /p="some text" | clip

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This command is used to quickly copy a specified text to the clipboard in a Windows command prompt.

Breaking it down:

echo is a command used to display text or enable/disable the echoing of commands in a command prompt.
| is called a pipe. It is used to redirect the output of one command as the input of another.
set /p="some text" is a set command used to create or alter the value of an environment variable. /p is an option that prompts the user to input a value. In this case, the value is set to "some text", which represents the desired text to be copied.
clip is a command used to copy the output of a command to the Windows clipboard.

Putting it all together, when the command is executed, it prompts the user to input "some text". The value is then redirected to the clip command, which copies it to the clipboard. So, after running this command, "some text" will be available to be pasted using the standard paste operation or keyboard shortcut.

This explanation was created by an AI. In most cases those are correct. But please always be careful and never run a command you are not sure if it is safe.

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