🔥 PowerShell Popular Shortcuts
Improve your shell workflow by mastering PowerShell shortcuts for auto-completion, history navigation, and command control, dramatically elevating your productivity.
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Tab
Tab Completion
Auto-completes commands, paths, and parameters.
🎯 Auto-completes commands, paths, and parameters instantly to speed up input
💡 Hint: Tab
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Ctrl+R
Search History Backward
Searches command history backward.
🎯 Searches command history backward to quickly recall previously used commands
💡 Hint: Reverse search
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Ctrl+C
Cancel Command
Cancels the currently running command (when no text is selected).
🎯 Cancels the running command immediately to regain control of the shell
💡 Hint: Cancel
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Ctrl+L
Clear Screen
Clears the screen.
🎯 Clears the screen to reset the workspace and improve visibility
💡 Hint: Clear
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↑
Previous Command
Shows the previous command from history.
🎯 Uses the up arrow key to recall previous commands for quick reuse
💡 Hint: Up arrow
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↓
Next Command
Shows the next command from history.
🎯 Uses the down arrow key to navigate to the next command in history
💡 Hint: Down arrow
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Alt+.
Insert Last Argument
Inserts the last argument from the previous command.
🎯 Inserts the last argument from the previous command to streamline tasks
💡 Hint: Alt+Period
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Ctrl+Space
Show All Completions
Shows all available completion suggestions.
🎯 Displays all available completion suggestions for easy selection
💡 Hint: Ctrl+Space