Redirect Linux terminal to clipboard

Building on the previous answer, you can use the "file" command to identify text files, and then limit your grep to only those files. For example:

  find dir -type f -print |
    xargs file |
    grep text |
    cut -f1 -d: |
    xargs grep "expression"

That's:

• Find all files in directory "dir"
• Pass these as arguments to "file"
• Look for output from "file" containing the word "text"
• Chop out the first colon-delimited field and use it as a filename
• Search these files using grep.

This will fail in the case of filenames containing whitespace or colons, but will otherwise do what you want.

You don't specify which flavour of Windows, but anything from Vista/2003 onwards should work doing this:

echo blah | clip

or

type myTextFile.txt | clip

However, I am not aware of a way to put an object (like a file (jpg, mp3, ini, etc)) into the clipboard from the command line using native tools.