clipboard interaction issue on windows (has solution)

[dheerajbhaskar]

Issue:

Getting clipboard

Can't get from clipboard in windows. Reproduction steps:
gist -Ppc

Error seen:
Error: Could not find copy command, tried: pbpaste || xclip -o || xsel -o || getclip

Copying to clipboard

Reproduction steps:
gist -pc

Error seen:
`Error: Could not find copy command, tried:
pbpaste || xclip -o || xsel -o || getclip

Attempted to copy: https://gist.github.com/[REDACTED]

`

Solution

Command to get clipboard in windows

powershell "Get-Clipboard"

This works in cmd.exe as well

Command to set clipboard in windows

pipe to clip

cmd.exe

in powershell

use Set-Clipboard

Notes

• When I've the time, I'll look into gist code and give a PR. I'm a ruby noob. In the meanwhile, it'd be great if someone can fix this for windows