PowerShell Linux

Open-source PowerShell projects categorized as Linux

Top 13 PowerShell Linux Projects

  1. wslcompact

    Compacts the size of the ever-growing WSL vhdx images.

    Project mention: Free up space (effortlessly) on WSL2 | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-08-19
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  3. tunic

    Install Linux from a running Windows system, without need for a live USB.

  4. PSTeams

    PSTeams is a PowerShell Module working on Windows / Linux and Mac. It allows sending notifications to Microsoft Teams via WebHook Notifications. It's pretty flexible and provides a bunch of options. Initially, it only supported one sort of Team Cards but since version 2.X.X it supports Adaptive Cards, Hero Cards, List Cards, and Thumbnail Cards. All those new cards have their own cmdlets and the old version of creating Teams Cards stays as-is for compatibility reasons.

  5. Purpleteam

    Purpleteam scripts simulation & Detection - trigger events for SOC detections

  6. OS-Scripts

    This is where I'll put my custom scripts/functions that might be useful in future projects of mine.

  7. ocwd

    Bulk download MIT OCW courses

  8. configurations-and-security-hardening

    Here goes settings I would prefer or suggest to harden servicers, servers, hosts, endpoints, etc.

  9. InfluxDB

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  10. Cronux

    Handy commands, utilities to perform simple and complex tasks with Powershell. Windows, Linux and maybe MacOS

  11. dotfiles

    Dotfiles for my Windows and Linux environments (by rodolphocastro)

  12. File-Integrity-Monitor

    A basic FIM (File Integrity Monitor)

  13. powershell-grep

    PowerShell-Grep brings the power and flexibility of the Linux grep command to Windows PowerShell. It's an essential tool for those who need advanced search capabilities in a familiar, command-line interface.

  14. CandyWrappers

    Candy wrappers is a program to execute tasks, programs, routines, functions, etc. defined in a JSON file. With this, you can define a big amount of tasks to execute a process, like a process to compile a C program(even using a MAKE commands in the process) or maintenance process to generate a report. It use wrappers, that is nothing but a defined task to execute, expecting a minimum amount of information to can realize the process.

  15. powershell-which

    PowerShell-which brings the functionality of the Unix-like which command to the PowerShell environment on Windows systems. The aim is to make it easier for users to find the executable path for a given command, something that's often needed but not straightforward in a Windows environment.

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).

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Index

What are some of the best open-source Linux projects in PowerShell? This list will help you:

# Project Stars
1 wslcompact 976
2 tunic 774
3 PSTeams 426
4 Purpleteam 189
5 OS-Scripts 158
6 ocwd 70
7 configurations-and-security-hardening 39
8 Cronux 12
9 dotfiles 7
10 File-Integrity-Monitor 5
11 powershell-grep 5
12 CandyWrappers 4
13 powershell-which 0

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