Is there a way to filter the command history in Windows using cmder?

In Linux I can doing something like history | grep abc and that will only bring up the commands that start with 'abc'. With Windows in cmder, I can bring up the history of commands with the history command, but I can't find a way to filter it down by the first few letters of the command. There seems to be no equivalent of | and grep.

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cat %CMDER_ROOT%\config\.history | grep abc

In Cmder::Cmder sessions history is a doskey macro. The output of a macro cannot be passed using the pipe | but you could use the command that is the content of the doskey macro.

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The rough analog of grep in Windows is find and findstr. So just run history | find "abc" or history | findstr abc

The difference between them is that:

• find supports Unicode (UTF-16) but doesn't support regex, and findstr supports regex but not Unicode
• find requires quotes around the search string but findstr doesn't

Why are there both FIND and FINDSTR programs, with unrelated feature sets?

In PowerShell there'll be a better solution: Select-String. It supports everything in find and findstr plus much more. And it doesn't have line length limitation

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