Copy to clipboard using Bash for Windows

How do I copy results from the commandline directly to the clipboard?

On Windows's cmd.exe I can do simply echo "asd" | clip and it pipes output to the clipboard.

I tried to install xclip for that, and though it compiled, when called it prints:

Error: Can't open display: (null)

Using mouse is not the solution.

Solution 1:

In Build 14393 or later, if you want to copy something to clipboard in WSL console, just add '.exe' to what you do in Windows cmd.

echo "aaa"|clip.exe

To read from clipboard:

powershell.exe -command "Get-Clipboard"

In order to copy non-ascii characters (other languages), I had to do this:

echo 'αβψδεφγ' | iconv -f utf-8 -t utf-16le | clip.exe

utf-16le excludes the preceeding BOM so you can paste it back