Comments on: Command History in Windows Command Prompt

By: nils

nils — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 10:45:17 +0000

This is very nice feature..
My work get very easy after knowing this feature
Thanks buddy…

By: sShah

sShah — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 11:29:47 +0000

A simple DOSKEY /HISTORY would do the same, that is retrieving history of all typed command line. You can even pipe it to a, say text file; great for documentation. I know this because it helps me a lot when I need to prepare user manual for any application installation or that sort of stuff.. Cheerio

By: sammy

sammy — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 11:58:38 +0000

In case this is also news, you can press F9 while in the menu displayed by pressing F7. Pressing F9 results in a prompt for the menu number of the command you wish to execute.

Furthermore, at the command prompt you can use F3 for the last command, and F8 repeatedly to go backwards through the history, one command at a time.

Finally, F2 allows you to copy a previous command up to the letter you enter.

I think these all come from the old DosKey program…

By: Tyler Reguly

Tyler Reguly — Tue, 08 May 2007 14:53:17 +0000

@kuza55

I’ve never heard of the Command Prompt history persisting… and I’m unaware of anything similar to the *nix .history file… However that doesn’t mean there isn’t one.

By: kuza55

kuza55 — Tue, 08 May 2007 11:02:36 +0000

I used to do what teh said as well, this will probably end up being rather useful.

Do you by any chance know if the windows command history persists (either in memory or on disk after a command window is closed, and if this data can somehow be extracted?

By: teh

teh — Mon, 07 May 2007 15:21:20 +0000

i didn’t know this one as well.
previously, i was just using the ‘arrow up’ to retrieve history one by one.