By john Viewing your PowerShell command history lets you review or reuse commands you have run, which is helpful for repeating tasks or recalling exactly what you typed. Windows 11’s PowerShell keeps a history you can display.
The Command
Get-HistoryWhat It Does
`Get-History` lists the commands you have entered in the current PowerShell session, each with an ID number. This lets you review what you have run and reference specific commands. It reflects the current session’s YYGACOR Login history, providing a record of your recent commands in the order you executed them.
When You’d Use This
This is useful for reviewing what you have run, repeating a previous command, or recalling exactly what you typed earlier in a session, which helps when retracing steps or reusing a complex command. The persistent history that spans sessions is especially handy for finding a command you ran days ago without having to reconstruct it from memory.
Useful Variations
To rerun a command from history by its ID, use `Invoke-History` followed by the number. Pressing the up arrow cycles through recent commands interactively. For history that persists across sessions, PowerShell’s PSReadLine module saves commands to a file, and `Get-Content (Get-PSReadlineOption).HistorySavePath` shows that saved history from previous sessions too.
If It Doesn’t Work
If `Get-History` shows only recent commands, remember it lists just the current session, while the persistent history saved by PSReadLine spans sessions in a file on disk. The up arrow draws on that saved history, which is why you can recall commands from previous sessions even though `Get-History` itself does not list them. Check the history file path to view that fuller record.
Good to Know
`Get-History` shows only the current session’s commands, while the persistent history saved by PSReadLine spans sessions and lives in a file on disk. The up arrow drawing on that saved history is why you can often recall commands from previous sessions even though `Get-History` itself lists only the current one.
Putting It Together
Once you have run it once or twice, this becomes second nature. As part of working with output and building simple automation, this command is a building block you will reuse constantly. As you combine it with the other scripting basics here, small one-off commands grow into reusable scripts that save real time on repetitive work. Like anything in the terminal, the real value comes from trying it on your own system and adapting the variations above to what you actually need, so it is worth experimenting with in a safe, low-stakes situation before relying on it in a script or during troubleshooting. Keeping a note of the commands you find most useful, along with the variations that fit your workflow, turns scattered one-off tricks into a personal reference you can draw on whenever a similar task comes up again.