Personal-Powershell-Profile

This is my personal powershell profile that I use regularly.

I decided to setup this Repo in case anyone else finds this useful.

Installing on a Fresh Install

1. Open up the Terminal application.

2. Update and make PowerShell 7 the default.

   My profile script uses syntax only compatible with PowerShell 7. Windows comes with PowerShell 5 by default. The command below references Chris Titus Tech's winutil Invoke-WPFTweakPS7 function.

   This script installs PowerShell 7.

   1. Installs PowerShell 7
   2. Starts a new PowerShell 7 session that will set PowerShell 7 as the default.
   3. Closes the original Terminal session.

   # Allows us to run PowerShell scripts.
   Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted -Scope CurrentUser
   Invoke-WebRequest https://raw.githubusercontent.com/anthonymendez/Personal-Powershell-Profile/refs/heads/main/Scripts/Setup-PowerShell7.ps1 | Invoke-Expression

3. Download my PowerShell profile!

   Invoke-WebRequest https://raw.githubusercontent.com/anthonymendez/Personal-Powershell-Profile/refs/heads/main/Scripts/Pull-PowerShell7.ps1 | Invoke-Expression

4. Restart the Terminal, now we'll setup/upgrade the Package Managers (winget, choco, scoop). Afterwards, we install our basic packages (gsudo, fastfetch, neovim, ohmyposh). We reload after each operation.

   Invoke-WebRequest https://raw.githubusercontent.com/anthonymendez/Personal-Powershell-Profile/refs/heads/main/Scripts/Run-Setup.ps1 | Invoke-Expression

5. Customize the profile and make it your own!

Functions

Reload-Profile

Reloads the PowerShell profile in place, ensuring that all configurations are reloaded.

Check-Sync

Checks the status of the settings sync that occurs on each new terminal session or Reload-Profile, providing feedback on any issues.

pshistory

Prints out the full history of PowerShell commands executed during the current session, similar to how cat .bash_history works in Bash.

yt-dlp-audio

An alias for easily downloading the audio file (in WAV format) from videos using yt-dlp.

Validate-Directory

Checks if the provided path is null, empty, or does not exist. This helps prevent errors when trying to perform operations on non-existent directories.

Restore-Folder - TO BE IMPLEMENTED

Writes the folder contents of $from to $to folder, recursively copying all files and subdirectories.

Restore-Files - TO BE IMPLEMENTED

Writes the file contents of $from to $to folder. If $from is a regex path, it will match and copy all matching files.

Restore-Config

Handles prompting to restore the configuration for a given path/file/file regex to the given destination/target directory. This includes backup functionality to ensure that no data is lost during the restoration process.

Example: Restore-Config 'glzr' 'glzr (e.g. GlazeWM & Zebar)' "$dir/.glzr" "$HOME"

Restore-Profile - TO BE FINISHED

Performs the full restoration process given the source directory. This includes checking for and handling any dependencies, ensuring that all configurations are restored correctly.

Aliases

Alias	Original Command	Notes
gchat	gemini	https://github.com/reugn/gemini-cli
rprofile	Reload-Profile
neovim	nvim
vim	nvim
code	codium	https://hithub.com/VSCodium/vscodium

Variables

Variable	Value
$GEMINI_API_KEY_PATH	$HOME/GeminiApiKey.txt
$ENV:GEMINI_API_KEY	Get-Content $GEMINI_API_KEY_PATH
$ZEBAR	$HOME/.glzr/zebar/config.yaml
$ZEBAR_START	$HOME/.glzr/zebar/start.bat
$GLAZEWM	$HOME/.glzr/glazewm/config.yaml
$FASTFETCH	$HOME/.config/fastfetch/config.jsonc
$OH_MY_POSH_THEME_PATH	$env:POSH_THEMES_PATH\paradox2.omp.json

Settings Sync

Starts a background process to copy various configurations and settings to a destination directory for backup. I have Google Drive installed on my computer so I've setup the destination folder to be backed up there.

The following folders and files are backed up:

• Powershell Profile
• PS1 Scripts in $HOME.
• Batch scripts in $HOME.
• oh-my-posh theme file.
• The Gemini API Key file.
• My FastFetch config folder.
• Windows 11 Terminal settings folder.
• SSH folder.
• glzr (GlazeWM, Zebar) config folder.
• List of installed winget packages.
• List of installed choco packages.

New Terminal Window Output

Clears output window incase previous commands, inits oh-my-posh with my custom theme,