I would expect Get-Clipboard
to work from this
I am on PowerShell 6.2.4 and MacOs Catalina?
Get-Clipboard : The term 'Get-Clipboard' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program.
Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.
At /Users/.../debug.ps1:41 char:1
+ Get-Clipboard
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (Get-Clipboard:String) [], CommandNotFoundException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException
PowerShell [Core] v6.x has no clipboard cmdlets - you'll have to wait for v7.0 for them to return (the available preview releases have them).
The documentation URL in your link ends in ?view=powershell-7
, indicating a v7.x topic; there's a dropdown list labeled "Version" to select a different PowerShell version; if you had selected 6
, you would have been told that no such page exists for v6.x
In the meantime, you have two options:
Use platform-specific tools such as pbpaste
/ pbcopy
(macOS) and xclip
(Linux distros with X11-based desktop), and clip.exe
/ the System.Windows.Forms
assembly on Windows.
Use the ClipboardText
third-party module (authored by me; repo), which wraps the above tools for you (text support only, via commands Set-ClipboardText
and Get-ClipboardText
).