Access clipboard in Windows batch file (from StackOverflow)

@if (@CodeSection == @Batch) @then

@echo off
setlocal

set "getclip=cscript /nologo /e:JScript "%~f0""

rem // If you want to process the contents of the clipboard line-by-line, use
rem // something like this to preserve blank lines:
for /f "delims=" %%I in ('%getclip% ^| findstr /n "^"') do (
setlocal enabledelayedexpansion
set "line=%%I" & set "line=!line:*:=!"
echo(!line!
endlocal
)

rem // If all you need is to output the clipboard text to the console without
rem // any processing, then remove the "for /f" loop above and uncomment the
rem // following line:
:: %getclip%

goto :EOF

@end // begin JScript hybrid chimera
WSH.Echo(WSH.CreateObject('htmlfile').parentWindow.clipboardData.getData('text'));
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