sanjeevstephan/superuser

Most Powerful Automation Profile { SuperUser} for New Windows Terminal

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To The Windows Terminal, Console and Command-Line repository

Powerful Window Automations Script

Index

• Description
• Directory Structure
• How to Setup
• How this Works
• How to Contribute
• Installing and running New Windows Terminal
• Welcome Terminal Log

SYNOPSIS

Microsoft Window Terminal Profile : SuperUser

Author

Sanjeev_Stephan_Murmu

Version

Version	Release Date
v2.0	30th May 2023

Description

This PowerShell Repository comprises the index of all the usefull functions and scripts for the window terminal

Directory Structure

• Main

File	Description	Explaination
Microsoft.PowerShell_profile.ps1	Main PowerShell Profile File	ReadMe
superuser.ps1	c	ReadMe
Auto-Discover.ps1	Includes all {*.ps1} files in the ./dependency directory	ReadMe
The-Prompt.ps1	The SuperUser Prompt	ReadMe

For In-Detail Explaination | Please refer to My Detailed Guide

How to Setup

By Default PowerShell Executions is restricted for CurrentUser.

1. Firstly, PowerShell execution policy is required to be one of: Unrestricted, RemoteSigned or ByPass to execute the installer. For example:

Get-ExecutionPolicy -List
Set-ExecutionPolicy -ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned -Scope CurrentUser

For Windows 11

2. Install Git From Terminal via Winget tool Install winget tool if you don't already have it, then type this command in command prompt or Powershell.

winget install --id Git.Git -e --source winget

3.Install PowerShell using Winget (recommended)
The following commands can be used to install PowerShell using the published winget packages:

winget search Microsoft.PowerShell

4. You'll get Output below like this

Name               Id                           Version Source
---------------------------------------------------------------
PowerShell         Microsoft.PowerShell         7.3.4.0 winget
PowerShell Preview Microsoft.PowerShell.Preview 7.4.0.3 winget

5. Now Install PowerShell or PowerShell Preview using the id parameter

winget install --id Microsoft.Powershell --source winget

or

winget install --id Microsoft.Powershell.Preview --source winget

Note : You have to execute any one of the command and not both
You should the success message like this below

Found PowerShell [Microsoft.PowerShell] Version 7.3.4.0
This application is licensed to you by its owner.
Microsoft is not responsible for, nor does it grant any licenses to, third-party packages.
Successfully verified installer hash
Starting package install...
Successfully installed

6. Verify The Powershell Installation by checking its version using below command

$PSVersionTable

Downloading & Installing SuperUser Script

7. Open Terminal & navigate to User's home directory
   

    For Windows 11 : C:\Users\<username>\OneDrive\Documents\
    For Windows 10 : C:\Users\<username>\Documents\

Using Below Command

cd $home\OneDrive\Documents\

8. Now Clone the "superuser' repository using bellow command

git clone https://github.com/SanjeevStephan/superuser.git

9. Now you will see a folder named SuperUser, renamed it to PowerShell

mv superuser PowerShell

10. Open Environment Variable using below Command

rundll32.exe sysdm.cpl,EditEnvironmentVariables

11. Add a new environment-variable named
    superuser

        Key : superuser 
        Value : C:\Users\<Username>\OneDrive\Documents\PowerShell\superuser.ps1

12. Now Restart the Terminal & switch to powerShell 7
13. Check if the system recognize the 'environment-variable' we just added

 echo $env:superuser
 echo $env:superuser_data
 echo $env:superuser_profile

11. If all the things went well you will be greeted by the terminal,similarly like this. CLick here to see the log

How this Works?

To know how this profile script works. Kindly click here to read the docs

How to Contribute

To know how you can contribute to this repository. Kindly Click here

Installing and running New Windows Terminal

Note: Windows Terminal requires Windows 10 2004 (build 19041) or later

Additional Settings for Window 11 (New Microsoft Terminal)

Go To Settings and do the following to maximize productivity

• Change th Default Profile from Windows PowerShell {5.3} to PowerShell {7.3}
• Change the Default Terminal Application from Let Window Decide to Windows Terminal
• Toggle ON -> Launch on machine startup (if you want the window to open terminal at launch)

Prerequisites

• You must be running Windows 10 2004 (build >= 10.0.19041.0) or later to run Windows Terminal
• You must enable Developer Mode in the Windows Settings app to locally install and run Windows Terminal
• You must have PowerShell 7 or later installed
• You must have Git installed
• You must have at least VS 2022 installed or Visual Studio Code popularly known as VSCode
• You must install the .NET Framework Targeting Pack to build test projects

LINK

• This Github Repository (https://github.com/SanjeevStephan/superuser)
• Microsoft Windows Terminal Repository (https://github.com/microsoft/terminal)
• PowerShell v7+ (https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/releases/latest)
• Download PowerShell-7.3.3-win-x64.zip
• Download git for terminal

superuser's Issues

script reads in the JSON data replace the user-path in the array

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