Powershell-Advanced-History

Interactive full-screen search through PowerShell command history.

Demo

demo.mp4

Features

• Real-time search with regex support across your entire PSReadLine history
• Full-screen display using alternate screen buffer (like vim, less, htop)
• Smooth keyboard navigation with arrows, PageUp/PageDown, Home/End
• Direct injection onto the prompt via Ctrl+H — no copy-paste needed
• Clean restore: your previous screen is restored exactly as it was after searching
• Most recent first: results are sorted with newest commands at the top

Installation

Automatic

git clone https://github.com/<your-user>/Powershell-find-history.git
cd Powershell-find-history
.\Install.ps1

The install script will:

1. Copy PowerShell-Advanced-History.ps1 to ~/Documents/PowerShell/Scripts/
2. Add auto-loading to your PowerShell profile
3. Available in every new session

Manual

Add this line to your PowerShell profile ($PROFILE):

. "path\to\PowerShell-Advanced-History.ps1"

Usage

Shortcut	Action
Ctrl+H	Search and inject the command directly onto the prompt
pah	Search and copy to clipboard (Ctrl+V to paste)

Inside the search interface

Key	Action
Up / Down	Navigate through results
PageUp / PageDown	Jump by page
Home / End	Go to first / last result
Enter	Select the command
Escape	Quit without selecting
Delete	Clear the search
Backspace	Remove last character

Type directly to filter — the filter supports regular expressions.

Why Ctrl+H instead of pah?

Ctrl+H runs inside the PSReadLine context, which allows injecting the command directly onto the prompt line. Just press Enter to execute it.

pah is a regular command — once it finishes, PowerShell displays a fresh prompt. There is no way to write to that new prompt from the previous command, hence the clipboard fallback.

Compatibility

• PowerShell 5.1 (Windows PowerShell) and PowerShell 7+
• Windows Terminal recommended for best rendering
• Requires the PSReadLine module (included by default)