Leveling up Windows Powershell with Oh My Posh

• Windows Terminal

  506 93,467 9.7 C++

  The new Windows Terminal and the original Windows console host, all in the same place!

  

⚠️ It’s recommended you use Windows Terminal to manage different shells. That’s a separate download, but it automatically picks up any shells you have (from Windows PowerShell, to PowerShell, to even the WSL (aka Linux) ones. I had to set PowerShell as default in the Windows Terminal settings.

• oh-my-posh

  114 14,144 9.7 Go

  The most customisable and low-latency cross platform/shell prompt renderer

Browse all the themes here or run Get-PoshThemes. The default themes come pre-installed with oh-my-posh in the $env:POSH_THEMES_PATH.

• 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.

  

• PSReadLine

  15 3,534 7.6 C#

  A bash inspired readline implementation for PowerShell

  

GitHub - PowerShell/PSReadLine: A bash inspired readline implementation for PowerShell

• ohmyzsh

  559 168,701 9.5 Shell

  🙃 A delightful community-driven (with 2,300+ contributors) framework for managing your zsh configuration. Includes 300+ optional plugins (rails, git, macOS, hub, docker, homebrew, node, php, python, etc), 140+ themes to spice up your morning, and an auto-update tool so that makes it easy to keep up with the latest updates from the community.

  

I thought I’d write about my process and the steps I took to get to my final Terminal setup. The process was similar to “oh my zsh” on Mac if you’re familar with that.

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