I often need to relay my Git output to my ever-friendly code buddies. The best way I know how is by doing this:
Right-click Git Bash title bar > Edit > Mark > Select lines > Enter
Bam - everything I selected is in my clipboard, and I am filled with joy.
Problem is, that's the boring way, and I like my relationship with Git to be full of excitement and glamour.
In Windows, you can pipe console output to your clipboard like-a so:
C:\> dir | clip
Amazing, right? Well, when you try to do something that in Git Bash, here's what happens:
> git branch | clip
sh.exe": clip: command not found
And that makes me sad. Is there a way to pipe Git Bash output to my clipboard in Windows so I can once again be filled with joy?
xclip -selection c will send data to the clipboard that works with Ctrl + C , Ctrl + V in most applications. If you're in Linux terminal mode (no X) then look into gpm or Screen which has a clipboard.
Well, actualy git branch | clip
works fine for me. clip
command just calls clip.exe
from C:\Windows\System32\
. Make sure you have clip.exe
installed somewhere in your PATH
.
copy thing.txt to clipboard
cat thing > /dev/clipboard
Put contents of clipboard into thing.txt
cat /dev/clipboard > thing.txt
I aliased these things to pbcopy and pbpaste so I feel like I'm on my mac.
@madhead's answer is correct - the PATH
variable must be set from within git-bash. Here's an elaboration on how to fix this issue, courtesy of Cairnarvon's answer on superuser:
To check what PATH
is currently set to:
> echo $PATH
And to set it, assuming a 64-bit architecture:
> export PATH="$PATH:/c/Windows/System32:/c/Windows/SysWOW64"
Result of git branch | clip
:
* master
dev
dev_foo
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