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PoshColor
PoshColor is a blatant ripoff of PSColor :relaxed:, allowing you to customise items in powershell based on your own color preferences. PoshColor works in Powershell Core and works across both Windows and Linux.
PSColozier can use either standard console colors or 8 bit RGB allowing 16 million colour goodness.
Features
- Colors can be set to RGB or Named colors from .Net (System.Drawing.Color)
- Tested under Windows (powershell and powershell core) and Linux (Ubuntu/bash Ubuntu/powershell core)
- Support for Background colors
- Coloring of:
- EventLogRecord (get-winevent)
- Files, Directories (ls / get-childitem)
- MatchInfo (select-string)
- MemberInfo (get-member)
- PSModuleInfo (get-module)
- PSDriveInfo (get-psdrive)
- Services (get-service)
- Files & Directories can have rules for coloring including based the following:
- File Names using regular expressions
- File Attributes such as directory, hidden, system, encypted or compressed
- Theme support
- Can be unloaded/reloaded without causing issues in your current session
Screenshot of Get-Childitem
Screenshot of Select String with -Context 1
Screenshot of Get-Service
Get-Command
Themes
There are currently 3 themes that come with PoshColor. Feel free to contribute more themes to make PoshColor the best it can be.
Included themes
| Theme Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Default | The default theme using standard terminal colors |
| DefaultHighColor | Similar styling to Default, but uses 8 bit RGB colors |
| Cool | Uses RGB colors to provide a theme based on whites, blues and greens |
Comands
| Command | Description |
|---|---|
| Get-PoshColorTheme | Gets the current theme being used by PoshColor |
| Set-PoshColorTheme | Sets the current theme for PoshColor to use |
| Get-PoshColorThemes | Gets a list of all installed PoshColor themes |
Installation
PowershellGallery
Install-Module PoshColor
Import-Module PoshColor
Install from source
git clone https://github.com/JustABearOz/PoshColor.git
sl .\PoshColor
.\Install.ps1
Install from Zip
Download the latest release and extract it into your powershell modules directory.
Add to Profile
The above installation methods will load the PoshColor module for your current session. If you want the PoshColor module loaded for all sessions, add the following line to your profile
Import-Module PoshColor
Updating PoshColor
To update PoshColor to the newest version, run the following command in powershell
Update-Module PoshColor
Unload PoshColor
To unload PoshColor from your session, run the following command in powershell
Remove-Module PoshColor
Themes
To view a list of installed themes
Get-PoshColorThemes
To set the current theme (Setting theme too Cool)
Set-PoshColorTheme Cool
To view the current theme
Get-PoshColorTheme
Questions
Why not contribute to PSColor?
PS Color seems to be a dead repository. There have not been any updates to the repo in a few years, and there are a few outstanding issues that have not been resolved. Yes, I could fix these issues, however there are PRs others have raised to fix some of the issues which have not been accepted in years. ALSO, I thought it would be fun to do :)