Installing PowerShell

Installing PowerShell

If you're on a Windows machine Windows PowerShell comes preinstalled and can be accessed by typing 'PowerShell' into the Windows search bar and selecting the PowerShell application.

If you are on Mac or Linux follow this link to download the installation package for your desired platform by clicking on the hyperlink for the installation media under the 'Downloads' header of the linked table.

If you wish to install PowerShell via the command line find steps for competing this on Mac using Homebrew here.

Once PowerShell is installed PowerShell can be accessed within the terminal application on Mac or Linux system by typing: pwsh

MBP-d3v:~ scottd3v$ pwsh                                                                

PowerShell v6.0.0-rc
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

https://aka.ms/pscore6-docs

Type 'help' to get help.

PS /Users/scottd3v>

You will be able to tell you are running PowerShell because the root of your terminal command line will switch to PS as seen below.

Before calling PowerShell using the pwsh command:

MBP-d3v:~ scottd3v$

After calling PowerShell using the pwsh command

PS /Users/scottd3v>