powershell-profile

This PowerShell profile makes the Windows PowerShell a bit better

Powershell 5

Save Profile.ps1 in Documents/WindowsPowershell/.

Powershell 7

Save Profile.ps1 to Documents/Powershell/Microsoft.PowerShell_profile.ps1

Don't have Powershell 7?

Powershell has a lot of quality of life upgrades. I recommend installing it and setting it as the default with Windows Terminal (https://apps.microsoft.com/store/detail/windows-terminal/9N0DX20HK701). You can install Powershell 7 with the built-in Windows packet manager winget like this: winget install --id Microsoft.Powershell --source winget.

Setting Powershell 7 as default in Windows Terminal

Setting it to be the default shell is done by opening up the settings, then opening the settings.json:

Change the defaultProfile value to be the GUID of the Powershell 7 profile. Below you can see the GUID of mine which I found further down in the json file. Copy the GUID and add it as the defaultProfile value.

What it does

What it does is:

• Makes tab-completion look and feel like Linux. It presents all options instead of rotating through each option.
• Creates function Get-History-Full, with alias hist. This allows you to see all commands you've run previously.
• Creates alias head for select-object, allowing us to do things like head -First 10.
• Edits the prompt to include the current branch, if the folder is a git repo.
• Loads all fabric patterns and makes them available as functions, allowing things like get-clipboard | <pattern>, e.g. iwr example.com | so -ExpandProperty content | summarize and of course much much more.
• Installs aadintenrals if it is not already installed. Can be then used by import-module aadinternals