PowerShell

• Accessing PowerShell Properties and Variables with Periods (and other special characters) in their Name

From: https://www.hanselman.com/blog/F7IsTheGreatestPowerShellHotkeyThatNoOneUsesAnyMoreWeMustFixThis.aspx

Did you also know that PSReadline logs all your commands to disk by default? Have a look at it: notepad (Get-PSReadLineOption).HistorySavePath After this you’ll think twice before copy-pasting plain-text secrets into the console…

PowerShell Profile - Microsoft.PowerShell_profile.ps1

Write-Host "Applying custom profile"
 
Import-Module PSReadLine
Import-Module posh-git
 
# Tab - Gives a menu of suggestions
Set-PSReadLineKeyHandler -Key Tab -Function MenuComplete
 
# UpArrow will show the most recent command
Set-PSReadLineKeyHandler -Key UpArrow -Function HistorySearchBackward
 
# DownArrow will show the least recent command
Set-PSReadLineKeyHandler -Key DownArrow -Function HistorySearchForward
 
# During auto completion, pressing arrow key up or down will move the cursor to the end of the completion
Set-PSReadLineOption -HistorySearchCursorMovesToEnd
 
# Shows tooltip during completion
Set-PSReadLineOption -ShowToolTips
 
# Gives completions/suggestions from historical commands
Set-PSReadLineOption -PredictionSource History
 
Set-Alias -Name tf -Value terraform