{"id":3640,"date":"2016-03-09T21:16:04","date_gmt":"2016-03-09T21:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/putridparrot.com\/blog\/?p=3640"},"modified":"2016-03-09T21:16:04","modified_gmt":"2016-03-09T21:16:04","slug":"powershell-profile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/putridparrot.com\/blog\/powershell-profile\/","title":{"rendered":"Powershell $profile"},"content":{"rendered":"

What’s the purpose of the $profile<\/strong><\/p>\n

The $profile (like a bash script configuration) allows us to configure the way our Powershell command shell looks, or sets the default location, we can add commands and aliases etc.<\/p>\n

Where’s the $profile and does it exist?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Typing the following will result in Powershell telling us where the Microsoft.PowerShell_profile.ps1 file is expected to be<\/p>\n

\r\n$profile\r\n<\/pre>\n
Just because $profile outputs a path, does not mean there’s a file’s there. It’s simply telling us where it goes to get the profile, we may still need to created one, instead we can use the following<\/p>\n
We can find out whether a $profile already exists using<\/p>\n
\r\nTest-Path $profile\r\n<\/pre>\n
Test-Path determines whether all elements of a path exists, i.e. in this case, does the file exist<\/em><\/p>\n
Creating the profile file<\/strong><\/p>\n
Typing<\/p>\n
\r\nNew-Item -path $profile -itemType file -force\r\n<\/pre>\n
will create a new item (in this case a file) at the location (and name) supplied by the $profile variable. The force switch ensure the file is overwritten if it already exists.<\/p>\n
The ps1 file is just a text file, so from the command line you can run Notepad or powershell_ise (or ofcourse from the Windows GUI you can do the same) and edit the file, allow us to enter the commands that might want available from session to session.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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