Windows equivalent of .bash_history? (decent command history)

[pete]

Under *nixes, there's a file called .bash_history in your homedir, this contains all the commands you've entered at all terminals / command prompts until it reaches a predefined limit (it gets truncated beyond X lines, but that's user-configurable). This history is searchable, so if you've typed in a long and involved command a week ago, you can search and rerun it with a couple of keystrokes.

 

This functionality is rather handy.

 

I'm aware that on Windows you can search for commands entered in the current command-prompt, but that history is lost when that prompt is closed.

 

Has anyone found a tool/add-on/replacement that provides this functionality? I had a play with powershell in the hope it had been included, but couldn't find it.

[RabbieBurns]

There is on, Ive used it before. I cant remember it off hand, gimme 2 mins Ill see if I can find it.

[Geoff]

DOSKEY /history

[RabbieBurns]

doskey doesnt keep the history between cmd sessions and reboots though does it?

[Geoff]

No it doesn't. But nothing else does either. You'd have to rip out and replace your command line interpreter with something like Take Command LE if you wanted that level of functionality.

 

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[RabbieBurns]

There was something I used. Im just struggling to find it again. It was a 3rd party addon that wrote commands to a small file.

[AngryTechnician]

I'd be very interested to know this too. In the meantime, since you've used bash before, you could always install Cygwin and... use bash.