Powershell Profile

published: July 7, 2019 author: Tinu tags: PowerShell categories: PowerShell-Basic

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Table of Contents

• Table of Contents
• Create your own PowerShell Profile
  • Scope
  • Profile
• Functions in your Profile
  • Windows
  • Mac OS
• See also

Create your own PowerShell Profile

Scope

You can create a profile for the following scopes:

Description	Path
Current User, Current Host	$PROFILE
Current User, Current Host	$PROFILE.CurrentUserCurrentHost
Current User, All Hosts	$PROFILE.CurrentUserAllHosts
All Users, Current Host	$PROFILE.AllUsersCurrentHost
All Users, All Hosts	$PROFILE.AllUsersAllHosts

Profile

To create your own Profile for WindowsPowerShell start Visual Studio Code and edit each of the following profile.ps1:

• Microsoft.PowerShell_profile.ps1
• Microsoft.VSCode_profile.ps1
• profile.ps1

code $PROFILE

code $PROFILE.CurrentUserCurrentHost

code $PROFILE.CurrentUserAllHosts

Functions in your Profile

My prefered functions in my own profile.ps1 on Windows, Mac and Linux:

function Test-IsElevated {
    if($PSVersionTable.PSVersion.Major -lt 6){
        # Windows only
        $user = [Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity]::GetCurrent()
        $ret  = (New-Object Security.Principal.WindowsPrincipal $user).IsInRole([Security.Principal.WindowsBuiltinRole]::Administrator)
    }else{
        if($IsWindows){
            $user = [Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity]::GetCurrent()
            $ret  = (New-Object Security.Principal.WindowsPrincipal $user).IsInRole([Security.Principal.WindowsBuiltinRole]::Administrator)
        }
        if($IsLinux -or $IsMacOS){
            $ret  = (id -u) -eq 0
        }
    }
    $ret
}

function prompt
{
    if (Test-IsElevated) {
        $color = 'Red'
    }
    else{
        $color = 'Green'
    }
    [Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [Net.SecurityProtocolType]::Tls12
    Import-Module -Name CompletionPredictor
    Set-PSReadLineOption -PredictionViewStyle ListView
    $history = Get-History -ErrorAction Ignore

    $Version = "$($PSVersionTable.PSVersion.Major).$($PSVersionTable.PSVersion.Minor).$($PSVersionTable.PSVersion.Patch)"

    Write-Host "[$($history.count[-1])] " -NoNewline
    Write-Host "[$([Environment]::UserName)@$([Environment]::MachineName)] " -ForegroundColor $color -NoNewline
    Write-Host ("I ") -nonewline
    Write-Host (([char]9829) ) -ForegroundColor $color -nonewline
    Write-Host ("  PS $Version ") -nonewline

    Write-Host ("$(get-location)") -foregroundcolor $color -nonewline
    Write-Host (" >") -nonewline
    return " "

}

Output, if you start WindowsPowerShell:

[0] [user@computer] I ♥ PS 5.1.1 C:\Users\Admin >

Output, if you start PowerShell:

[0] [user@computer] I ♥ PS 7.1.4 C:\Users\Admin >

See also

About Profiles on Microsoft Docs.

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