PowerShell Shortcuts
I’m all about shortcuts when it comes to development and there’s no exception for PowerShell.
Browsing around this morning, I found two useful shortcuts that I didn’t know existed.
F7 “History”- Pressing the F7 key will show a dialog window in PowerShell with a list of commands from your history. You can also access this list by using the cmdlet “Get-History” but I find the dialog WAY more easy than the cmdlet or using the Up arrow key.
F8 “Filtered Commands” - Pressing the F8 key is much like using the Up arrow key to scroll backwards through your list of commands; however, it allows you to filter the list of commands. Here’s an example of a list of commands:
1. cls
2. Write-Host “Starting my example”
3. cls
4. Write-Output “This is fun”
5. cls
6. Write-Warning –message “Uh oh, too much fun”
7. cls
8. Write-Host “Ending my example”
The way to efficiently use F8, is for command line 6, type only: “write” and then press F8 several times. It will cycle through all of your previous commands, but only those that started with “write” (lines 2, 4, and 6).
Cool: - you will also notice that the cursor is positioned at the end of your filter, so you can easily move it ahead or behind and do a Ctrl + End to delete the rest of the command line to continue writing.
