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I'm using clip to set text on the clipboard.
To do that, I use echo.
echo Works|clip
The problem is when the text contains special characters, eg. | ".
echo (TRUE|FALSE)|clip
echo " is a Quote Mark|clip
How should the text for echo be escaped?
Is there a better way to set text to the clipboard?
Adamarla
Posted 2018-09-12T14:41:01.907
Reputation: 113
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Use the ^ escape character.
When piping to clip, the ^ needs escaping as well.
Example 1:
> echo (TRUE^^^|FALSE)|clip
Contents of clipboard:
(TRUE|FALSE)
Example 2:
> echo ^" is a Quote Mark|clip
Contents of clipboard:
" is a Quote Mark
Escape Character
^Escape character.Adding the escape character before a command symbol allows it to be treated as ordinary text.
When piping or redirecting any of these characters you should prefix with the escape character:
& \ < > ^ |Example:
^\ ^& ^| ^> ^< ^^
Source Quotes, Escape Characters, Delimiters - Windows CMD - SS64.com
DavidPostill
Posted 2018-09-12T14:41:01.907
Reputation: 118 938
The problem with the " character, is that when present, the text is not piped to the clip command. The |clip is echo'd with the preceding text. The escaped pipe causes an error when piping to clip. – Adamarla – 2018-09-12T16:41:28.290
" needs escaping when piping to clip. Also need to escape ^ when piping to clip. Answer updated. – DavidPostill – 2018-09-12T16:57:22.460
Possible duplicate of how to escape pipe symbol | in bat scripts?
– phuclv – 2018-09-12T17:01:33.400@phuclv Not really. It's a bit more complicated. See my answer. – DavidPostill – 2018-09-12T17:28:16.760