Copy-HistoryCommand could benefit from accepting value from pipeline

[corbob]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. I love the idea of this function, but I find myself often wanting to copy a series of commands.

Describe the solution you'd like I would like to be able to issue a command like 10..15 | ch and have the clipboard contain the contents of all of these commands.

Describe alternatives you've considered

I have a snippet like this that I use today: 10..15 | h | % commandline | scb

Additional context I did some playing around to prove out the concept, and I think it can be done with minor(ish) changes. The code that I have working is:

Function Copy-HistoryCommand {

    [CmdletBinding(SupportsShouldProcess)]
    [alias("ch")]
    [outputtype("None", "System.String")]
    Param(
        [Parameter(Position = 0, ValueFromPipeline)]
        [ValidateNotNullOrEmpty()]
        [int]$ID = $(Get-History).Count,
        [switch]$Passthru)

    Begin {
        Write-Verbose "[BEGIN  ] Starting: $($MyInvocation.Mycommand)"
        $commands = @()
    } #begin

    Process {
        Write-Verbose "[PROCESS] Getting commandline from history item: $id"
        $commands += (Get-History -Id $id).CommandLine

    } #process

    End {
        If ($PSCmdlet.ShouldProcess("ID #$id [$commands]")) {
            $commands | Microsoft.PowerShell.Management\Set-Clipboard

            If ($Passthru) {
                #write the command to the pipeline
                $commands
            } #If passthru
        }
        Write-Verbose "[END    ] Ending: $($MyInvocation.Mycommand)"
    } #end

} #close function

Obviously the use of an array is problematic from a performance perspective, but for a quick and dirty proof of concept it works fairly well.

[jdhitsolutions]

I was having the same thought about copying multiple commands. I'm still working on the next module release and plan on adding this functionality to the command.

[jdhitsolutions]

This is fixed in v2.41.0

[jdhitsolutions]

The latest version doesn't accept pipeline input, but you could easily run a command like copy-historycommand (10..15)

[corbob]

The latest version doesn't accept pipeline input, but you could easily run a command like copy-historycommand (10..15)

This is true. It actually makes it easier for my use because my keyboard makes it super easy to insert () compared to | 👍