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PowerShell PowerTip: searching and installing modules on the command line

August 21, 2018 Aug 21, 2018 08/21/18

Kory Thacher

PowerShell 5+ ships with the module PowerShellGet, which lets us search and install modules from cmdlets. The default nuget repository is the PowerShell Gallery, but you could add others yourself (including custom ones for internal modules). There are a lot of reasons this could help you: There are a lot of cmdlets in the module, ...

PowerShell PowerTip: History of commands with PSReadline

August 7, 2018 Aug 7, 2018 08/7/18

Kory Thacher

One of the really cool things PSReadline provides (module shipping on v5+) isn't as immediately obvious as the syntax highlighting. It offers a persistent history that is stored from session to session. This means if you run commands in a window, close it, and open a new one later you can still hit the up arrow and scroll through them. I ...