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Powershell coolness - persistent history

From	Char Jackson <none@none.invalid>
Newsgroups	alt.comp.os.windows-11
Subject	Powershell coolness - persistent history
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Date	2025-04-03 01:28 -0500

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I very rarely use powershell and I'm not overly familiar with it, but
today I wanted to run a command that I knew I had run several months
ago. I couldn't remember the syntax, but it turns out that powershell
keeps a record of every command I've ever used.

To retrieve the PS command history and display it in Notepad:

   Notepad (Get-PSReadLineOption).HistorySavePath

To find the history file:

   (Get-PSReadLineOption).HistorySavePath

or in File Explorer's location bar:

   %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\PowerShell\PSReadLine\
   %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\PowerShell\PSReadLine\*_history.txt

Mine is in:
C:\Users\[user]\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\PowerShell\PSReadLine\ConsoleHost_history.txt


Probably old news to most folks here, but new news to me.

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Powershell coolness - persistent history Char Jackson <none@none.invalid> - 2025-04-03 01:28 -0500
  Re: Powershell coolness - persistent history Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-04-03 05:12 -0400
    Re: Powershell coolness - persistent history Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2025-04-03 10:31 +0100
    Re: Powershell coolness - persistent history Char Jackson <none@none.invalid> - 2025-04-03 10:51 -0500
  Re: Powershell coolness - persistent history VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2025-04-03 05:40 -0500
    Re: Powershell coolness - persistent history Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2025-04-03 12:44 +0100

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