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Command Prompt session history

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by bsmith19992001

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I need help with the Command Prompt (I have XP). Does anyone know if the commands I enter are saved to a file on the C and/or in the registry? I am not talking about the Run Box. The Bash Shell in UNIX for example stores session history in the ~/.bash_history file.

Many thanks.

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by apotheon

You can use the F7 key in a cmd.exe session. The more braindead command.exe sessions, however, don't support F7 for command history. The doskey utility should provide command history for you even in command.exe sessions, but I'm not sure if it works with current versions of command.exe (I seem to remember Microsoft broke some stuff).

I don't know, off the top of my head, where MS Windows stores cmd.exe session history.

I'm not sure what you mean by "Run Box". I usually hear that term in reference to the "Run" dialog that you can bring up from the Start menu -- which doesn't really have anything to do with cmd.exe session history, as far as I'm aware.

by lowlands

the commands are stored in memory, and only for the time the command window is open.

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