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Search through previous powershell commands with grep

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It can be really difficult trying to remember that command you used a few weeks ago in Powershell. Here’s an easy way to search through your previous commands to find the right one and jog your memory. First, run

[cc lang="powershell"](Get-PSReadlineOption).HistorySavePath
C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\PowerShell\PSReadline\ConsoleHost_history.txt[/cc]

1 2	[cc lang="powershell"](Get-PSReadlineOption).HistorySavePath C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\PowerShell\PSReadline\ConsoleHost_history.txt[/cc]

Then you can cat the output to look for the command

[cc lang="powershell"]cat C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\PowerShell\PSReadline\ConsoleHost_history.txt[/cc]

1	[cc lang="powershell"]cat C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\PowerShell\PSReadline\ConsoleHost_history.txt[/cc]

Or just open…

Confused about deprecated O365 commands?

By admin

I was getting pretty confused with the various options around powershell commands to use with Exchange online. For example, to add a user to a distribution group in O365, I had come across 4 different commands:

[cc lang="powershell"]Add-AzureADGroupMember
Add-AzureRMADGroupMember
Add-DistributionGroupMember
Add-MsolGroupMember[/cc]

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[cc lang="powershell"]Add-AzureADGroupMember

Add-AzureRMADGroupMember

Add-DistributionGroupMember

Add-MsolGroupMember[/cc]

So after some digging I realised that the *-AzureRM* are powershell cmdlets to modify general Azure resources using…

Configuring log-on scripts to run via powershell from the “Run” key in Windows registry

By admin

If you’ve tried to add a powershell script to a registry run key, you’ve probably discovered that it doesn’t run with powershell. Instead, Windows just opens the script in Notepad and leaves it sitting there all naked and exposed! So in order to launch the powershell scripts we’re going to need to use a .bat…

Category: windows 10

Search through previous powershell commands with grep

Confused about deprecated O365 commands?

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