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Copy text from the command line to the Windows clipboard

If you do a lot of work at the command line in Windows XP, you might need to copy and paste the command output to the Windows clipboard (For example, you can put it in a Word or text document to save it or print it).

If you try to highlight and right click the contents of a command window as you would do in a Windows document, you will find that does not work.

Here's how to do it: 1. Right click on the command window's Title Bar and click Properties. 2. Click the Options tab. 3. Check/Tick the box that says "QuickEdit Mode" on the right side of the dialog box. 4. Now you can left click within the command window and drag a box around the text that you want to select. 5. Right click anywhere in the window, or just press Enter to copy the text to the clipboard. 6. Paste it into a Windows document in the usual way.

If you want to paste content into a command window.

When the text is on the clipboard, just right click anywhere inside the window (as long as you aren't in select mode as described in step 4 above)  