During Don’s TechEd session that was simulcast on the web, I was furiously answering questions for the online crowd. One of the questions was about Don’s PowerShell prompt. Every time he pressed Enter, a command counter was incremented and displayed like this:<\/p>\n
[137] PSH C:\\temp ><\/p>\n
I don’t exactly what Don used, but here’s a prompt function that I came up with to achieve this effect:<\/p>\n
Function Prompt { In your profile, which is where you would add this function, you’ll also need to define a global counter variable.<\/p>\n $global:i=0<\/font><\/p>\n The prompt function will increment this counter each time you press Enter. If you want to start again at 0, simply set $i back to 0. Short and simple.<\/p>\n But this got me thinking…what else can I do with my PowerShell prompt? My prompt includes the current date and location displayed in yellow:<\/p>\n Wed 6\/6\/2007 12:29:28 PM PS C:\\Documents and Settings\\jhicks ><\/p>\n But what about having a prompt that displays CPU utilization and the number of running processes:<\/p>\n [CPU:7% Procs:66] PS C:\\temp ><\/p>\n What about a prompt that displays the current user:<\/p>\n PS [SAPIEN\\JHICKS 3:03 PM] C:\\temp ><\/p>\n One of my favorites that I came up with, at least for a short term, is to have the current location spoken:<\/p>\n function Prompt { I’ve attached a text file with all the prompt functions that I’ve mentioned here plus a few more. Once you look at the samples you’ll see how easy it is to mix and match information.<\/p>\n Enjoy.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n During Don’s TechEd session that was simulcast on the web, I was furiously answering questions for the online crowd. One of the questions was about Don’s PowerShell prompt. I thought I’d figure out what Don did plus came up with a bunch of new prompts you can use.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows-powershell"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
#[137] PSH C:\\temp >
# You need to define $global:i=0
# in your profile before you run this function
# You can reset $i to 0 at any time if you want
# to “reset” the prompt counter
$global:i++
”[“+$i+”] PSH ” + $(Get-Location) + ” > “
}<\/font> <\/p>\n
#Install SAPIEN Community extensions and use Write-Speech to
#speak the current directory
Get-Location | Write-Speech
$myPrompt=”PSH ” + $(Get-Location) + ” > “
Write-Host ($myPrompt) -nonewline
return ” “
}<\/font> <\/p>\n