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My Powershell Library

This sets up my PowerShell environment - including my profile and my "standard" scripts, modules, PSDrives, and settings. Of course, to load everything, I still need to manually doctor a main PowerShell Profile file. I use the AllUsersCurrentHost, cuz I'm every user (hmm... reminds me of a song).

Some of my standard functions ('snew' shows the current list; or 'snew -ModulesToo' to include loaded modules):

My default folder location for scripting is, aptly, C:\Scripts. I keep this library, therefore, in C:\Scripts\lib.ps (and that's what my install script defaults to). It is psdrive'd to Scripts:\ ... note... any drive you set as the home will be psdrive'd to Scripts:\

For some degree of security, I adjust the permissions so that the Owner is "Administrator" from the local machine - then I remove Write permissions from any non-Administrator user/group. This forces a UAC prompt (or abject failure) if I try to modify anything without Admin elevation. If you're not familiar with NTFS and permissions, I recommend looking into them....

Well, they're not truly ini files, more like init files. Within the lib.ps\Settings folder are ini files that configure some of the settings. For example, I use the add-topath.ini file to specify directories to add to the PATH environment variable (because there are paths to add... but only for PowerShell); and I use the remove-frompath.ini to specify directories to remove (because there are paths to remove...).

I'm moving more and more of these items to ini files to minimize edits to the scripts themselves. I can add a new dir to the path by changing a ini file rather than edit (and someday, re-sign) the script.

That said, you might want to adjust these ini files as necessary for your environment (assuming there actually is a 'you' out there reading and using this). You should also be able to add additional modules just by adding their urls to the ini file.

Download and extract the zip from: https://github.com/brsh/lib.ps/archive/master.zip (or clone this thing - your call).

Then, pick your preferred Profile file from:

and add the following:

if (test-path C:\Scripts\lib.ps\Profile\profile.ps1) {
    . C:\Scripts\lib.ps\Profile\profile.ps1
}

To get my scripts and modules, after installing and loading the profile (either restart PowerShell or just dot source the profile.ps1), then run:

Get-Content $libpath\Settings\Get-GitModule.ini | Get-GitModule.ps1 -ReadOnly -Verbose
get-content $libpath\Settings\Get-Git-Clones.ini | get-GitModule.ps1 -ReadOnly -Verbose

Just save Create-LibPS.ps1 to your local hard drive and run it. It will try to clone all the pieces necessary and adjust your default Powershell profile accordingly.

Just run the following:

$ScriptFromGithHub = Invoke-WebRequest https://raw.githubusercontent.com/brsh/lib.ps/master/Create-LibPS.ps1
Invoke-Expression $($ScriptFromGithHub.Content)