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

Question

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.

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65848917/is-there-a-way-to-filter-the-command-history-in-windows-using-cmder

Answer 1

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.

Referenced: https://github.com/cmderdev/cmder/issues/1770