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The terminal is one of those places that looks scary to many, though it really isn’t.

Or any number of reasons in between.

Piping the contents of a .bashrc file to the Windows 11 clipboard from WSL

Piping text from Linux to the Windows 11 clipboard is a great example of how WSL integrates the two

The terminal is a powerful tool in any PC user’s arsenal.

Here’s how to do it.

There are mild differences between PowerShell/Command Prompt and WSL, though.

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In the first two, you would pipe to clip after the command.

Hopefully it’ll help out a few of you, too!

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