It can be really difficult trying to remember that command you used a few weeks ago in Powershell. Here’s an easy way to search through your previous commands to find the right one and jog your memory. First, run
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[cc lang="powershell"](Get-PSReadlineOption).HistorySavePath C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\PowerShell\PSReadline\ConsoleHost_history.txt[/cc] |
Then you can cat the output to look for the command
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[cc lang="powershell"]cat C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\PowerShell\PSReadline\ConsoleHost_history.txt[/cc] |
Or just open it in notepad
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[cc lang="powershell"]notepad C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\PowerShell\PSReadline\ConsoleHost_history.txt[/cc] |
If you want to search for a specific command within your history you can use findstr as follows
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[cc lang="powershell"]cat C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\PowerShell\PSReadline\ConsoleHost_history.txt | findstr -i get-azureadgr[/cc] |
Or if you’re more comfortable with the UNIX/Linux commands like myself you can use grep in Powershell by creating an alias as follows
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[cc lang="powershell"]new-alias grep findstr[/cc] |
And search for the command as before, but this time using grep 😊
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[cc lang="powershell"]cat C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\PowerShell\PSReadline\ConsoleHost_history.txt | grep -i get-azureadgr[/cc] |