Powershell commands history Windows 10 1809 (PSReadLine)

Question

_{Thursday, January 10, 2019 4:51 PM}

Hi all,

I wish you a HNY, healthy and full of happiness !

Since I upgraded my 2 Windows 10 workstations on 1809, I've lost the history and coloration of Powershell commands.

I know this is a known PSReadLine related issue with keyboard layouts other than EN, but I did not find THE solution to solve it.

Should you have an idea ?

Thanks.

Regards,

FXE

All replies (4)

_{Monday, January 14, 2019 7:44 AM ✅Answered}

Hi,

Thanks for your question.

By default, the PowerShell in Windows 10 saves the last 4096 commands that are stored in a plain text file located in the profile of each user %userprofile%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\PowerShell\PSReadline\ConsoleHost_history.txt. The history is stored separately for PowerShell and ISE.

You can check the text file for command history.

You would need a new build of PSReadLine. In the question of Github, someone fixes it by installed a new build of PSReadLine. replace files in C:\Program Files\WindowsPowerShell\Modules\PSReadline\2.0.0.

Please refer the link below:

https://github.com/lzybkr/PSReadLine/issues/614

Best Regards,

Lee

Just do it.

_{Thursday, January 10, 2019 7:25 PM}

Please elaborate your issue.

Are you referring to Get-History command?

How did you perform this action in previous build?

_{Friday, January 11, 2019 12:53 PM}

Since 1809 upgrade, I've no history when I press up arrow key, and I've no coloration (yellow and others) on my commands.

FXE

_{Friday, January 18, 2019 8:22 AM}

Hi Lee and thank you for your answer.

What I found on your link :

- Download he patched nightly build : https://ci.appveyor.com/project/lzybkr/PSReadLine/branch/master/artifacts

- Replace the updated files :

@eliohann I installed the nightly build by replacing files in C:\Program Files\WindowsPowerShell\Modules\PSReadline\2.0.0
And now it works with my custom keyboard layout !

Really strange this issue has not been fixed yet by MSFT...

FXE