clip: WSL bash script to access the Windows Clipboard (both read and write)

clip

#!/bin/bash
[[ ! -t 1 ]] && powershell.exe Get-Clipboard
[[ ! -t 0 ]] && clip.exe
if [[ -t 1 && -t 0 ]]; then
    echo Nothing specified to copy or paste! >&2
    exit 1
fi

Save this gist to a file called clip somewhere in your $PATH, and make executable with chmod u+x clip.
You can then redirect stuff from and to clip, or pipe to clip.

To sort a bunch of text you've copied:

clip | sort

or plain dump the text on the clipboard into a file:

clip > clipboard.txt

To copy the contents of a file to the clipboard:

clip < file.txt
# or
cat file.txt | clip

Exactly what I was looking for. Thanks 😊.