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?
1 Answers
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
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