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Harvest PowerShell command history

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September 30, 2024

By: Dr. Tobias Weltner and Aleksandar Nikolić Sep 30, 2024 7:09:00 PM

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Tobias & Aleksandar's tip #9:

The two very well-known PowerShell experts have teamed up to share their best and most helpful PowerShell tips.

We will be publishing their scripts over the course of Scriptember in 13 blog posts. Don't miss their insights! Be sure to follow all Scriptember events, listed in our calendar here. 

 

Overview of all 13 articles published during Scriptember: 

 

 

Harvest command history

If you played interactively with PowerShell and then discovered that you’d like to keep the code that you just executed, here is a useful line:



(Get-History).CommandLine | Set-ClipBoard 


It copies your entire command line history to the clipboard so you can easily paste it to your favorite editor and save it.

If your history is very large, you can add time filtering. This will get you just the commands from the past 15 minutes:



(Get-History | Where-Object StartExecutionTime -gt (Get-Date).AddMinutes(-15)).CommandLine | Set-ClipBoard 

 

 

 

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About the author:

Dr. Tobias Weltner and Aleksandar Nikolić

Tobias Weltner and Aleksandar Nikolić joinly wrote the blog post series 'Tobias&Aleksandar's PowerShell tips'. So we introduce both of them here:
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Tobias is a long-time Microsoft MVP and has been involved with the development of PowerShell since its early days. He invented the PowerShell IDE "ISESteroids", has written numerous books on PowerShell for Microsoft Press and O'Reilly, founded the PowerShell Conference EU (psconf.eu), and is currently contributing to the advancement of PowerShell as member in the "Microsoft Cmdlet Working Group". Tobias shares his expertise as a consultant in projects and as a trainer in in-house trainings for numerous companies and agencies across Europe.
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Aleksandar Nikolić is a Microsoft Azure MVP and co-founder of PowerShellMagazine.com, the ultimate online source for PowerShell enthusiasts. With over 18 years of experience in system administration, he is a respected trainer and speaker who travels the globe to share his knowledge and skills on Azure, Entra, and PowerShell. He has spoken at IT events such as Microsoft Ignite, ESPC, NIC, CloudBrew, NTK, and PowerShell Conference Europe.

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