{"id":6800,"date":"2019-07-08T14:30:04","date_gmt":"2019-07-08T18:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jdhitsolutions.com\/blog\/?p=6800"},"modified":"2019-08-16T10:05:25","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T14:05:25","slug":"a-powershell-proof-of-concept-with-windows-terminal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jdhitsolutions.com\/blog\/powershell\/6800\/a-powershell-proof-of-concept-with-windows-terminal\/","title":{"rendered":"A PowerShell Proof of Concept with Windows Terminal"},"content":{"rendered":"

I recently updated my Windows 10 systems to the 1903 release. One of the reasons is that I wanted to try out the new Windows Terminal preview. You can find it in the Windows Store. This is bleeding edge stuff and far from complete but promises to be a great addition. Now you will be able to have all your command terminals, in one tabbed application and easily be able to switch between them. As I said, this is far from being a finished and polished product. Right now, if you want to add a new profile, that is another terminal, you have to manually edit a json file. If you have VS Code installed, the file will open in that.\u00a0 Otherwise, I'm assuming you'll get whatever application is associated with the .json extension.<\/p>\n

I don't mind the json format because that is something that I can consume with PowerShell. While some people are hoping for a graphical profile editor, I'm just as happy using PowerShell. To that end I've thrown together a function to add a new profile to your profiles.json file. Like Windows Terminal, this is definitely a work in progress and far from complete. But I can foresee writing a module to manage Windows Terminal once it matures a bit more.<\/p>\n

For now, you can find the function as a Github gist.<\/p>\n