Spice up your PowerShell with Starship

I was supposed to do a bunch of stuff in PowerShell, so I was thought let spice up that terminal and not feel so miserable i.e. how to procrastinate with less guilt.

Install the required font

Install the required nerd font, of course you need to set up the font to be used by PowerShell.

Install starship

we will be using starship as the prompt, we can install via:

• via chocolatey

  choco install starship

• or, via msi installer

Configure PowerShell

Configure your PowerShell to use starship, this can be achieved by editing Microsoft.PowerShell_profile.ps1.

Typically the path is ~\Documents\PowerShell\Microsoft.PowerShell_profile.ps1 or ~/.config/powershell/Microsoft.PowerShell_profile.ps1

and you can use notepad to edit Microsoft.PowerShell_profile.ps1

notepad $PROFILE

and add the following line

Invoke-Expression (&starship init powershell)

if that didn’t work, you might don’t have the permission to run unsigned script. Try using this to add permission:

Set-ExecutionPolicy -ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned -Scope LocalMachine

refresh current PowerShell profile

. $profile

Configure starship

you can configure starship further by first creating the config file

New-Item -ItemType Directory -Force ~/.config;New-Item -ItemType file ~/.config/starship.toml;

This newly created directory and config file can be found at the user's home directory, e.g. C:\Users\<UserName>.

and I use preset from starship by running

starship preset pastel-powerline -o ~/.config/starship.toml

Now to stop procrastinating and do some work! right after I did the same thing with cmd and my WSL bash.