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11. commands detail - h

head

The PowerShell equivalent of the *nix head is:

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history

The Powershell equivalent of history is:

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There is a built in alias history

It’s worth noting that history doesn’t persist across PowerShell sessions, although if you search online there are a couple of published techniques for making it persistent.

It’s also perhaps worth noting that Powershell gives you a couple of extra bits of information, if you want them:

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history | egrep -i ls

There is no direct equivalent of the shell functionality you get with set -o vi sadly. You can up- and down- arrow by default, but if you want to search through your history then you need to do something like thishistory | select commandline | where-object {$_.commandline -like '*ls*'} | fl

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