Copy Contents of Multiple Text Files to Clipboard

It is actually interesting that selecting mutiple files and using (e.g.) that script to search does open three tabs in Firefox.

The problem becomes how one would handle the processing of those files in sequence to append them to one destination rather than 3. I have no idea how that would be done.

Given that it's a particularly niche specification, my immediate reaction is it's not one I'd spend time trying to solve.

Hello @bamajon1974,

bamajon1974 said:

Does anyone know how to modify the tutorial "Copy Contents to Clipboard" through some sort of command or bat file to copy the contents of multiple text files at once to the clipboard, each file separated by lines/space or something?

If I remember correctly I did something similar a few years ago using a Batch file. I think it turned out to be something simple like [ with the correct suffix added of course ] . . .

Code:

copy file_name1 + file_name2 + file_name3 target_file

If you wanted to copy all the files in a particular folder for example, you could use a loop.

I hope it helps!

It's more complicated than that.

n files could be selected where n is variable.

In a context menu, the parameter passed is the full path of the item selected.

Thus n separate instances of the program launched from the context menu somehow have to append either the path or the contents of the file selected to one destination.

You would somehow have to take all those separate paths and process them in turn in a loop as you say, which appears to require n instances of scrip a triggered from the context mennu to result in data being processed by a single script, script b.

In a pure simplistic form as an example, I suppose you could do something like this . . .

Code:

set "tmp1=file_name1.txt"
set "tmp2=file_name2.txt"
set "tmp3=file_name3.txt"
set "target=target_file.txt"

type "%tmp1%" >> "%target%"
echo.         >> "%target%" & echo ========== NEXT FILE ========== >> "%target%" & echo. >> "%target%"
type "%tmp2%" >> "%target%"
echo.         >> "%target%" & echo ========== NEXT FILE ========== >> "%target%" & echo. >> "%target%"
type "%tmp3%" >> "%target%"
echo.         >> "%target%" & echo ========== NEXT FILE ========== >> "%target%" & echo. >> "%target%"

I actually did something similar to this yesterday where I had to dump a file into the tmp directory and then copy the contents into a specific location in a new file!

Hello @bamajon1974,

Are you talking about something like this => Add 'Copy Contents to Clipboard' to Context Menu in Win 10

I hope this helps!

Hello @bamajon1974,

bamajon1974 said:

Yes but the registry modification/command in the tutorial only works for one file. I want to be able to copy the contents of an arbitrary number of text files to the clipboard rather than just one.

Creating a batch script based on my sudo code will do what you want. Once you have the <target> file setup, you can copy as many other files into it that you want.

The loop would look something like this . . .

Code:

for %%f in (*.txt) do type "%%f" >> target.txt

I hope this helps!