{"id":7956,"date":"2020-12-11T11:19:51","date_gmt":"2020-12-11T16:19:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jdhitsolutions.com\/blog\/?p=7956"},"modified":"2020-12-11T11:19:57","modified_gmt":"2020-12-11T16:19:57","slug":"friday-fun-a-powershell-christmas-prompt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jdhitsolutions.com\/blog\/powershell\/7956\/friday-fun-a-powershell-christmas-prompt\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Fun – A PowerShell Christmas Prompt"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Time for a new Friday Fun article. These articles use \"fun\" ways to teach you how to use PowerShell. The end goal may be silly, but hopefully the techniques and concepts are useful. Today I have an updated prompt function. You can customize your PowerShell prompt by creating a function called prompt <\/em>and loading it into your PowerShell session.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The prompt function only lasts for as long as your PowerShell session is running. Run:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

get-content function:prompt<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
to see your current prompt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Because Christmas is coming, and given how 2020 has been, we might want something to brighten up our day. I have a PowerShell prompt function that gives you a Christmas countdown, wrapped in emojis and color.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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You can dot source the script file and if the date is between 12 December and Christmas, it will load a new prompt. The prompt will calculate a timespan indicating how long until Christmas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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The rest of the function is embellishment around this text:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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I'm going to display emojis randomly chosen from an array of characters. You can either paste an emoji into your code or use my ConvertTo-Emoji function which converts the hex value.  The pasted emojis I'm using may not display properly here so I've included equivalents. Here's the script that is dot sourced in the prompt script.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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The last part of the prompt is to take the string and display each character with an ANSI escape sequence. I've written the sequence so it will work in both Windows PowerShell and PowerShell 7.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Some of the sequences include blinking characters. The entire line of text is written to the host.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Write-Host\u00a0\"$front\u00a0$($colortext\u00a0-join\u00a0'')\u00a0$back\"<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
The prompt concludes using the default location code.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"PS\u00a0$($executionContext.SessionState.Path.CurrentLocation)$('>'\u00a0*\u00a0($nestedPromptLevel\u00a0+\u00a01))\u00a0\"<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Originally, I was using Write-Host with -NoNewLine so that the text preceded the location. But I like the look of it on its own line. Want to see?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Save the files to the same directory and then dot source the prompt script.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
. c:\\scripts\\christmasprompt.ps1<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
\"A<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Because the ANSI colors are random, you get something different every time hit Enter. The blinking characters make your prompt sparkle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Yes, this silly and has no practical purpose, unless you are a terrible procrastinator and need the reminder! But look at the PowerShell techniques: dot sourcing, switch, functions, sub-expressions,timespans, If statements. These are all things you will use in your real PowerShell work. If you are still learning PowerShell, sometimes it helps to see these things demonstrated in different ways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I hope you'll at least give the code a try. The prompt only lasts for as long as PowerShell is running so there's no risk. Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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