I needed to have some text that I used often ready to be copied in my blog, so the first thing I though to avoid writing always the same things was to store it in a text file, then I thought to create a batch file to use it as a command to make the file open so that I could copy the text, but I wanted to be even faster than that, so I thought what if the text is copied with a command without having to open the text file and then copy it? I would save a lot of milliseconds 😂
So I thought to use python to put that text in the clipboard and then create a batch file to use it as a command from the cmd.
How to get the clipboard?
It’s simple if we install pyperclip
pip install pyperclip
D:\bat>pip install pyperclip Collecting pyperclip Downloading pyperclip-1.8.2.tar.gz (20 kB) Installing build dependencies ... done Getting requirements to build wheel ... done Preparing metadata (pyproject.toml) ... done Building wheels for collected packages: pyperclip Building wheel for pyperclip (pyproject.toml) ... done Created wheel for pyperclip: filename=pyperclip-1.8.2-py3-none-any.whl size=11136 sha256=5000bae3a27626eeaf3e0798e09f971adc7b93f4ef8b9c455e05c771051d3741 Stored in directory: c:\users\giova\appdata\local\pip\cache\wheels\70\bd\ba\8ae5c080c895c9360fe6e153acda2dee82527374467eae061b Successfully built pyperclip DEPRECATION: google-images-search 1.4.6 has a non-standard dependency specifier click>=7.0<=8.1.*. pip 23.3 will enforce this behaviour change. A possible replacement is to upgrade to a newer version of google-images-search or contact the author to suggest that they release a version with a conforming dependency specifiers. Discussion can be found at https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/12063 Installing collected packages: pyperclip Successfully installed pyperclip-1.8.2
Then you create a .py file with this code:
import pyperclip
pyperclip.copy('text to be copied')
print(pyperclip.paste())
Ok, now just make a .bat file that start this file with
python clip.py
adding the path of the file.
Put this .bat file where your computer have the file that starts like a command. If you do not know how to do read this post where I explained one of the best trick exists.
Read also this:
How I keep my projects organized with batch files
Run your python script from the cmd with its name
Ok. See ya in the next post.
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