Top 12 PowerShell Linux Projects

tunic

4 768 2.9 PowerShell

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

1 615 3.1 PowerShell

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

Project mention: WSL2 on Windows 11 - Virtual Disk vhdx is 200GB now , Inside Debian there is hardly few python codes. Is it due to this /mnt (these are windows drives mounted automatically by debian wsl) | /r/bashonubuntuonwindows | 2023-07-06

The community has also made a utility to get around this issue https://github.com/okibcn/wslcompact

InfluxDB

www.influxdata.com sponsored

Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.
PSTeams

1 396 5.8 PowerShell

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.
Purpleteam

1 122 7.8 PowerShell

Purpleteam scripts simulation & Detection - trigger events for SOC detections
sig-windows-dev-tools

2 77 7.0 PowerShell

This is a batteries included local development environment for Kubernetes on Windows.
ocwd

2 51 7.7 PowerShell

Bulk download MIT OCW course resources at one click!
Cronux

2 12 0.0 PowerShell

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

workos.com sponsored

The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.
dotfiles

1 7 5.7 PowerShell

Dotfiles for my Windows and Linux environments (by rodolphocastro)
powershell-grep

2 4 4.5 PowerShell

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.

Project mention: Introducing Grep and Which for Powershell: Essential Tools for Windows, Linux, and Azure | /r/developers | 2023-05-24

Grep for Powershell: https://github.com/The-da-vinci/powershell-grep Which for Powershell: [link]

File-Integrity-Monitor

1 3 0.0 PowerShell

A basic FIM (File Integrity Monitor)
CandyWrappers

1 3 2.6 PowerShell

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.
powershell-which

1 0 4.9 PowerShell

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	tunic	768
2	wslcompact	615
3	PSTeams	396
4	Purpleteam	122
5	sig-windows-dev-tools	77
6	ocwd	51
7	Cronux	12
8	dotfiles	7
9	powershell-grep	4
10	File-Integrity-Monitor	3
11	CandyWrappers	3
12	powershell-which	0