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Last week I was seeing what else I could add to my Windows Terminal setup. If you can launch a console from the command line, you can probably create a Windows Terminal profile for it. Recently, I've added Ruby and Python to my desktop, both of which have interactive consoles. I thought, \"Why not add them to Windows Terminal?\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I looked at the properties for the Ruby console and copied and command line. With this, it was easy enough to add a new profile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

{\n    \/\/ Ruby cmd\n    \"guid\" :\"{a7849c4a-db74-4723-adf2-c717357f0a1a}\",\n    \"name\" : \"Ruby\",\n    \"commandline\": \"C:\\\\Windows\\\\System32\\\\cmd.exe \/E:ON \/K C:\\\\Ruby27-x64\\\\bin\\\\setrbvars.cmd\",\n    \"tabTitle\": \"Ruby Cmd\"\n},<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
What I didn't have was an icon, but the ruby.exe file did. I needed a PowerShell way to extract the icon and save it to a file. There are plenty of third-party tools that will handle this task, but where's fun in that? I poked around looking for a starting point and came across an old piece of code from Josh Duffney<\/a> posted on Spiceworks<\/a>. His code had the key bit I needed, the necessary .NET Framework class and command to extract the icon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
With this inspiration, I wrote this PowerShell script.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
#requires -version 5.1\n\n# inspired by https:\/\/community.spiceworks.com\/topic\/592770-extract-icon-from-exe-powershell\n\n[CmdletBinding(SupportsShouldProcess)]\nParam(\n    [Parameter(Position = 0, Mandatory,HelpMessage = \"Specify the path to the file.\")]\n    [ValidateScript({Test-Path $_})]\n    [string]$Path,\n\n    [Parameter(HelpMessage = \"Specify the folder to save the file.\")]\n    [ValidateScript({Test-Path $_})]\n    [string]$Destination = \".\",\n\n    [parameter(HelpMessage = \"Specify an alternate base name for the new image file. Otherwise, the source name will be used.\")]\n    [ValidateNotNullOrEmpty()]\n    [string]$Name,\n\n    [Parameter(HelpMessage = \"What format do you want to use? The default is png.\")]\n    [ValidateSet(\"ico\",\"bmp\",\"png\",\"jpg\",\"gif\")]\n    [string]$Format = \"png\"\n    )\n\n    Write-Verbose \"Starting $($MyInvocation.MyCommand)\"\n\n    Try {\n        Add-Type -AssemblyName System.Drawing -ErrorAction Stop\n    }\n    Catch {\n        Write-Warning \"Failed to import System.Drawing\"\n        Throw $_\n    }\n\n    Switch ($format) {\n        \"ico\" {$ImageFormat = \"icon\"}\n        \"bmp\" {$ImageFormat = \"Bmp\"}\n        \"png\" {$ImageFormat = \"Png\"}\n        \"jpg\" {$ImageFormat = \"Jpeg\"}\n        \"gif\" {$ImageFormat = \"Gif\"}\n    }\n\n    $file = Get-Item $path\n    Write-Verbose \"Processing $($file.fullname)\"\n    #convert destination to file system path\n    $Destination = Convert-Path -path $Destination\n\n    if ($Name) {\n        $base = $Name\n    }\n    else {\n        $base = $file.BaseName\n    }\n\n    #construct the image file name\n    $out = Join-Path -Path $Destination -ChildPath \"$base.$format\"\n\n    Write-Verbose \"Extracting $ImageFormat image to $out\"\n    $ico =  [System.Drawing.Icon]::ExtractAssociatedIcon($file.FullName)\n\n    if ($ico) {\n        #WhatIf (target, action)\n        if ($PSCmdlet.ShouldProcess($out, \"Extract icon\")) {\n            $ico.ToBitmap().Save($Out,$Imageformat)\n            Get-Item -path $out\n        }\n    }\n    else {\n        #this should probably never get called\n        Write-Warning \"No associated icon image found in $($file.fullname)\"\n    }\n\n    Write-Verbose \"Ending $($MyInvocation.MyCommand)\"\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
The script will extract the icon from the file specified by the Path parameter and save it in the specified format. There are other formats, but I decided on a ValidateSet() attribute with the most likely formats. The script will create an output file name based on the destination and original file name. Or, you can specify an alternate base name. I also added support for -WhatIf.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
With this script, I can run a command like this to extract the icon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"extracting<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
That looks good. I'll re-run without -WhatIf to extract the icon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"ruby<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Now, I can update my Windows Terminal setting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
{\n    \/\/ Ruby cmd\n    \"guid\" :\"{a7849c4a-db74-4723-adf2-c717357f0a1a}\",\n    \"name\" : \"Ruby\",\n    \"commandline\": \"C:\\\\Windows\\\\System32\\\\cmd.exe \/E:ON \/K C:\\\\Ruby27-x64\\\\bin\\\\setrbvars.cmd\",\n    \"tabTitle\": \"Ruby Cmd\",\n    \"icon\": \"d:\\\\onedrive\\\\windowsterminal\\\\profileicons\\\\ruby.png\"\n},<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
\"ruby<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
I can do the same thing with Python.exe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I hope you find this useful. You could easily turn it into a function. Comments and questions are always welcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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