PasteText: the reverse of clip.exe; pastes Clipboard.GetText() or Clipboard.GetFileDropList() to the standard output.

PasteText.Program.cs

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Collections.Specialized;
using System.Linq;
using System.Windows.Forms;

namespace PasteText
{
    class Program
    {
        private const string STR_PasteText = "PasteText.exe";

        [STAThread]
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            bool help = showHelp(args);
            if (!help)
                pasteText(args);
        }

        private static bool showHelp(string[] args)
        {
            bool help = args.Contains("/?") || args.Contains("-?") || args.Contains("/h") || args.Contains("-h") || args.Contains("--help");
            if (help)
            {
                Console.Out.WriteLine(@"{0} [/?|-?|/h|-h|--help] [/r|-r|--raw]
  pastes Clipboard.GetText() or Clipboard.GetFileDropList() to the standard output
Optional arguments:
  /?|-?|/h|-h|--help:
    shows this help
  /r|-r|--raw:
    pastes raw text (default: pastes text as is)
Example:
  {0} | clip.exe
    pastes the text through clip.exe, effectively stripping any formatting.", STR_PasteText);
            }
            return help;
        }

        private static void pasteText(string[] args)
        {
            if (Clipboard.ContainsText())
            {
                bool rawOutput = args.Contains("/r") || args.Contains("-r") || args.Contains("--raw");
                string text = Clipboard.GetText();
                if (rawOutput)
                {
                    Console.Out.Write(text);
                }
                else
                {
                    // the order of the separators is important: CRLF, LFCR, LF, CR
                    // http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/vstudio/tabh47cf
                    // TODO: in the future add more Unicode separators
                    // http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newline#Representations
                    // http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newline#Unicode
                    string[] separators = new[] { "\r\n", "\n\r", "\n", "\r", };
                    string[] lines = text.Split(separators, StringSplitOptions.None);
                    foreach (var line in lines)
                    {
                        Console.Out.WriteLine(line);
                    }
                }
            }
            else if (Clipboard.ContainsFileDropList())
            {
                StringCollection files = Clipboard.GetFileDropList();
                foreach (string file in files)
                {
                    Console.Out.WriteLine(file);
                }
            }
        }
    }
}