🔥 My Powershell Config

My Windows Powershell configuration with oh-my-posh and PSReadline.

Prerequisites

⚠ You should use a modern console host like ConEmu, Alacritty, Terminus, Hyper, FluentTerminal, or the official Windows Terminal to have a great terminal experience on Windows. ⚠

Techologies used

• oh-my-posh
• PSReadline

How to active the scripts execution in Powershell?

• This command will show which policy is active

  Get-ExecutionPolicy

Policy table
| Restriced | AllSigned | RemoteSigned | Unrestriced | ByPass |
|———————————————————————————————————————— |——————————————————————————- |———————————————————————————————————————— |—————————————————————————————————————————————————————- |——————————————————————————— |
| No script can be run. Windows Powershell can only be used in interactive mode. | Only scripts signed by a trusted publisher can run. | Download scripts must be signed by a trusted publisher before they can be run. | No restrictions. All scripts can be run, but download scripts will prompt for permission before it runs. | All scripts can be run, without warnings or prompts. |

Example: My Powershell is using RemoteSigned policy

• This command will change your policy:

  Set-ExecutionPolicy -Scope CurrentUser RemoteSigned

How to install PSReadline and oh-my-posh

• Install PSReadline

Install-Module -Name PSReadLine -AllowPrerelease -Scope CurrentUser -Force -SkipPublisherCheck

• If you don’t have an -AllowPrerelease flag, upgrade PowerShellGet with:

Install-Module -Name PowerShellGet -Force first.

• Install oh-my-posh

Install-Module oh-my-posh -Scope CurrentUser

(Not necessary)

• Install Get-ChildItemColor

Install-Module -Name Get-ChildItemColor -AllowPrerelease -Scope CurrentUser -Force -SkipPublisherCheck -AllowClobber

Configure Powershell profile

• Into your powershell, execute this command:

if (!(Test-Path -Path $PROFILE )) { 
  New-Item -Type File -Path $PROFILE -Force 
}
# To open in visual studio code, but you can change it
code $PROFILE

And copy and paste profile configuration in theme