How can you get the clipboard contents with a Windows command?

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If it would be acceptable to use PowerShell (and not cmd), then you can use Get-Clipboard exactly as you were looking for.

Get-Clipboard > myfile.txt

The advantage of this method is that you have nothing to install.

Note: In place of clip you can use Set-Clipboard that has more options.

Note 2: If you really want to run it from cmd, you can call powershell as in the following example powershell -command "Get-Clipboard | sort | Set-Clipboard".

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