How can I see the command history across all PowerShell sessions in Windows Server 2016?

Question

Where can you view the full history from all sessions in Windows Server 2016?

The following PowerShell command only includes the commands from the current session:

Answer 1

The Psreadline module 2.1 beta1 on Powershell gallery (Powershell 7 only) https://www.powershellgallery.com/packages/PSReadLine/2.1.0-beta1 does intellisense on the commandline using the saved history: https://github.com/PowerShell/PSReadLine/issues/1468 It's been starting to show up in Vscode. https://www.reddit.com/r/PowerShell/comments/g33503/completion_on_history_in_vscode/

Also in Psreadline, you can search the saved history backwards with either f8 (after typing something on the command line) or control-R. Get-psreadlinekeyhandler lists the key bindings.

get-psreadlinekeyhandler -bound -unbound | ? function -match history

Answer 2

In PowerShell enter the following command:

(Get-PSReadlineOption).HistorySavePath

This gives you the path where all of the history is saved. Then open the path in a text editor.

Try cat (Get-PSReadlineOption).HistorySavePath to list the history in PowerShell.