Send files through Clipboard

sendfilesthroughclipboard.ps1

#Credit: https://gist.github.com/ethzero/47f657ca635752b5bdb45f99eae40182

function Send-Base64EncodedfileThroughClipboard {
	[CmdletBinding()]
	param (
		# Path to file to encode	
		[Parameter(Mandatory = $true,
			Position = 0,
			ValueFromPipeline = $true,
			ValueFromPipelineByPropertyName = $true,
			HelpMessage = "Path to input file. ")]
		[Alias("PSPath")]
		[ValidateNotNullOrEmpty()]
		[string]
		$Path
	)

	#$Content = Get-Content -Encoding Byte -Path $path
	$Content = [System.IO.File]::ReadAllBytes($path)
	
	[System.Convert]::ToBase64String($Content) | Set-Clipboard
}
		
function Receive-Base64EncodedfileThroughClipboard {
	[CmdletBinding()]
	param (
		# Output file
		[Parameter(Mandatory=$true,
			Position=0,
			ValueFromPipeline=$true,
			ValueFromPipelineByPropertyName=$true,
			HelpMessage="Path to outputfile. ")]
		[Alias("PSPath")]
		[ValidateNotNullOrEmpty()]
		[string]
		$Path
	)
	$Base64 = Get-Clipboard -Format Text -TextFormatType Text
	[System.IO.File]::WriteAllBytes($path, [System.Convert]::FromBase64String($Base64) )		
}