The Get-History command in PowerShell lists only the commands entered during the current session.
To get the list of all previously executed commands it is required to locate the file where these commands are stored.
In this note i will show how to locate the history file and list all commands executed previously in PowerShell.
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Command History in PowerShell
Get the PowerShell command history file location:
PS C:\> (Get-PSReadlineOption).HistorySavePath
List the history of all commands executed previously in PowerShell:
PS C:\> cat (Get-PSReadlineOption).HistorySavePath