Vista tip: use clip.exe to copy command output to the clipboard

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A tip I noticed from a fellow ITpro.fi member: Windows Vista introduces the tiny little command named "clip.exe" which allows you to copy the output of a command-line application to the clipboard. By using the pipe command | you can forward the first command's output to be pasted further into another Windows application, such as Notepad or Outlook. Here's an example:

ipconfig | clip

A useful tool for those of us who already use Vista and/or Longhorn.