I am getting errors when using bash redirect syntax to write to /dev/clipboard. Reading works ok.
# this does not work $ echo "foo bar" >file.txt $ cat file.txt >/dev/clipboard cat: write error: Permission denied # nor this $ ls -la >/dev/clipboard ls: write error: Permission denied # but this does $ echo "foo bar" >/dev/clipboard $ cat /dev/clipboard foo bar # this works too $ dd if=file.txt of=/dev/clipboard 0+1 records in 0+1 records out 8 bytes (8 B) copied, 0.000127467 s, 62.8 kB/s # more information $ ls -la /dev/clipboard crw-rw-rw- 1 steveb None 13, 254 Nov 30 2006 /dev/clipboard $ uname -a CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64 box3 1.7.27(0.271/5/3) 2013-12-09 11:57 i686 Cygwin I have rebooted and updated Cygwin (cygcheck attached). Any ideas? Yours, Jeremy Hetzler
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