poshutils

Collection of PowerShell modules, utilities and config files.

These PowerShell commands include tools for programming in VisualStudio(R), Git source code management, signing code and various system utilities.

They make use of the following external PowerShell modules:

• Pester
• PsReadline (part of PowerShell 5.0)
• posh-git
• PSColor
• VSSetup
• z

which may be retrieved from the PowerShellGallery.

Installation

Prerequisites

• PowerShell 3.0 or later
• Git for Windows

Automatic installation

To automatically install the content of this repository along with its dependencies, enter in a PowerShell shell

git clone https://github.com/nhbusch/poshutils.git path/to/repo
cd path/to/repo
.\Install

which clones this repository, changes to the installation directory, and runs the install script. The install script will also create a link from the PowerShell user directory - usually $env:USERPROFILE\Documents\WindowsPowerShell - to the above installation directory.

Manual installation

Install external modules

Installing external modules requires PowerShellGet, which is part of PowerShell 5.0 or later (distributed with Windows 10 or Windows Management Framework 5.0). If you are on PowerShell 4.0 or earlier, you need to install PowerShellGet instead.

Either clone the repository during first time installation

  git clone https://github.com/nhbusch/poshutils.git path/to/repo

or update it with

  git pull

Then, create a link from the PowerShell user directory to the installation directory

  cmd /c mklink /j (Split-Path $PROFILE -Parent) path\to\repo\poshutils

To install the above dependencies into the user module path, run e.g.,

Install-Module -Name PSReadLine -Scope CurrentUser

Your are done!