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🔥 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

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