Interactive Prompt in PowerShell

Interactive Prompt in PowerShell

June 10, 2025·Tyler Rasmussen
Tyler Rasmussen

Just wanted to share a quick tip I recently learned.

In PowerShell instead of using TAB to cycle through the various parameters (flags in Linux parlance), use CTRL-SPACE instead! It gives you a handy interactive list of all of the parameters. Much easier when looking for a specific parameter you can’t quite remember.

PS C:\Users\tyler> Get-Content -ReadCount
ReadCount            Include              Wait                 ErrorAction          OutVariable
TotalCount           Exclude              Raw                  WarningAction        OutBuffer
Tail                 Force                Encoding             InformationAction    PipelineVariable
Path                 Credential           Stream               ErrorVariable
LiteralPath          UseTransaction       Verbose              WarningVariable
Filter               Delimiter            Debug                InformationVariable

[long] ReadCount