15. Profiles¶
Note
The below information is extensively based in information taken from the PowerShell® Notes for Professionals book. I plan to extend this information based on my day to day usage of the language.
15.1: Create an basic profile¶
A PowerShell profile is used to load user defined variables and functions automatically.
PowerShell profiles are not automatically created for users.
To create a PowerShell profile
1 | New-Item** -ItemType File $profile |
If you are in ISE you can use the built in editor C:>psEdit $profile
An easy way to get started with your personal profile for the current host is to save some text to path stored in the $profile-variable
1 | "#Current host, current user" > $profile |
Further modification to the profile can be done using PowerShell ISE, notepad, Visual Studio Code or any other editor.
The $profile-variable returns the current user profile for the current host by default, but you can access the path to the machine-policy (all users) and/or the profile for all hosts (console, ISE, 3rd party) by using its properties.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 | $PROFILE | Format-List -Force AllUsersAllHosts : C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\profile.ps1 AllUsersCurrentHost : C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\Microsoft.PowerShell_profile.ps1 CurrentUserAllHosts : C:\Users\user\Documents\WindowsPowerShell\profile.ps1 CurrentUserCurrentHost : C:\Users\user\Documents\WindowsPowerShell\Microsoft.PowerShell_profile.ps1 Length : 75 |
1 2 | $PROFILE.AllUsersAllHosts C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\profile.ps1 |