Win Command prompt copy to Clipboard...Possible?

[stytagm]

Hi Guys,

What I want to know is: Is it possible to copy a file to the clipboard (to be pasted later on) using a command prompt, or even better, the run command from the start menu.

Reasoning: I'm, using remote desktop to administer web-servers and frequently have to upload one or two files at a time. Terminal services makes your local machine's disk's available as networked drives, but it's Sloooooooow. So rather than having to browse to the file I want to copy, right-click->copy etc, I want to type something similar to:

copy \\tsclient\c\pathname\filename clipboard

then just browse to my target location, right click and paste.

Any ideas? I've googled a bit, and experimented a bit, but can't find what I want. Cheers guys.

PS you can type the above in a CMD prompt, but it merely copy's the target to your current directory, and renames it to "clipboard"

[Spud1]

why not just use copy as copy directly, rather than mesing about with the clipboard

eg

copy \\tsclient\c\path\file.zip c:\test\

or

copy \\tsclient\c\path\file.zip \\tsserver\c\target\

that should do what your asking i think..

[stytagm]

Hi Spud,

Sorry, I had thought of that, but the target directories are at a depth of about 8-10 directories which is quite a bit of typing, even with auto completion.

I find it relatively easy to double click my way there, but I'd probably get the path wrong if I had to type it all out.

Thanks, Andrew.