Piping output from Git Bash to clipboard

Question

I often need to relay my Git output to others. The best way I know how is by doing this:

Right-click Git Bash title bar > Edit > Mark > Select lines > Enter

Now everything I selected is in my clipboard. But I'd like to do it on the command line.

In Windows, you can pipe console output to your clipboard like so:

C:\> dir | clip

But when you try to do that in Git Bash, here's what happens:

> git branch | clip
sh.exe": clip: command not found

Is there a way to pipe Git Bash output to my clipboard in Windows?

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

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.

Answer 3

@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

Answer 4

For Mac users, you can simply pipe the git diff output to pbcopy utility. Something like

git diff | pbcopy

And paste the changes anywhere. No need to first highlight all the git difference from the terminal and then paste it somewhere.

Answer 5

Easiest way to copy Git Bash console's entire content:
Right click anywhere on the console > Select All

Keyboard shortcut for the same: Ctrl+Shift+A
Enable this keyboard shortcut by enabling Options > Keys > Ctrl+Shift+letter shortcuts.

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