If you have used
command prompt (Start > cmd) in Windows, you will know that any
keyboard shortcut (ex. copy is Ctrl+C) that you normally use in other application is prohibit in Windows command prompt. Hence you can’t copy and paste any text inside command prompt.
I don’t know why Microsoft choose not to enable this function. Lately
this limitation becomes increasingly irritating, when I’m working on a
application with Ruby on Rails that requires a lot command line actions.
So I found a solution that let’s you enable keyboard shortcut Ctrl + V to paste inside Windows Command Prompt.
Credit goes to
How-to-geek, what you need to do is first
download this nifty utility called
AutoHotkey then you need to copy and paste the following script into the program.
#IfWinActive ahk_class ConsoleWindowClass
^V::
SendInput {Raw}%clipboard%
return
#IfWinActive
If you aren’t sure what to do with the above code you can
download this script and run the script, assume you have AutoHotkey already installed on your machine.
So now while have this utility running you can copy any text and use the keyboard shortcut to paste it inside your Command Prompt.
Enjoy !
Download AutoHotkey
here, download enable Paste in Command Prompt Script
here.
