Windows (powershell) counterparts of Linux commands

You may find Windows mostly powershell equivalent of frequently used Linux commands here.

I will update this post, with newer ones by the time…

tail -100f <file mask>

Via powershell, without installing new software, you may issue below command for refreshing the alert log and seeing last 100 rows displayed in the very beginning.

Get-Content alertmydb.log -Wait -tail 100

history

For history of commands executed simply issue.

Get-History

grep

select-string <string to look for> <file name>

find

Find the files having a mask alert*log up to 5 directories depth.

gci -Path alert*log -Recurse -Depth 5

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft.powershell.management/get-childitem?view=powershell-6