windows shell & copy text

[sims]

With OS X  Applescript  I can use the following to place hilited text 
from the font most application
onto the clipboard:
----------
tell application "System Events"
	set frontApp to name of first application process whose 
frontmost is true
end tell
tell application  frontApp
	activate
	tell application "System Events"
		key code 8 using command down
	end tell
end tell
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Is there a shell script in Windows that will do the same?

ciao,
sims

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