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Holding Arthur
Holding Arthur

Reputation: 169

Can view the history of powershell OUTPUTS?

It is easy to view the command history of powershell, but sometimes, one might forget to record some important output of the commands, and wish to have a look back into what was on the screen?

Is the history of outputs automatically saved somewhere?

Upvotes: 6

Views: 5109

Answers (2)

hrdom
hrdom

Reputation: 168

To automatically run the Start-Transcript to save outputs:

The path and file represented by the $PROFILE system variable are not created on my computer. To create this path and file, run the following command.

if (!(Test-Path -Path $PROFILE)) {
  New-Item -ItemType File -Path $PROFILE -Force
}

Then run notepad $PROFILE.
Then paste the Start-Transcript into the file (For me is ...\Documents\WindowsPowerShell\Microsoft.PowerShell_profile.ps1)

Upvotes: 0

MikeSh
MikeSh

Reputation: 432

By default, PowerShell records history of commands, but not their output.

You can request PowerShell to record screen output into a file. Use Start-Transcript and Stop-Transcript for this.

Example

Start-Transcript

'do stuff here'
Get-Service X*
'do some more stuff here'

Stop-Transcript

If you want PowerShell to automatically record all your stuff every time, you can add Start-Transcript in your PowerShell profile (use $PROFILE system variable to find path to your profile script, then add Start-Transcript into it)

By default, a new text file is created every time you start transcript. If you want to keep adding output into the same file, then Start-Transcript -Path C:\ExistingTranscript.txt -Append

Upvotes: 11

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