4/30/2023 0 Comments Powershell macosWhile it’s nice to have the same shell running across multiple platforms, as bash does, PowerShell for Mac and Linux isn’t going to be nearly as useful as it is on Windows if you want full Windows functionality on another OS. As one small example shows below, Get-PSProvider doesn’t show the provider for the registry, as there is no equivalent (at all) on macOS. Net functionality when compared to the versions that run on Windows. While the shell appears feature complete as far as syntax is concerned, PowerShell for Mac is missing considerable core. I start PowerShell for Mac from the ITerm2 command line, and from there I can look about PowerShell all I want. The current PSVersion is 6.0.0-beta, and it’s shown running on macOS 10.12.5. I chose to just grab the binary and run with it as I have enough projects to keep me occupied as it is. ![]() From GitHub you can either grab the source and build it yourself, download and install a pre-built binary, or both. Microsoft has open sourced PowerShell and made it available on GitHub ( ). One of those applications interestingly enough is Microsoft’s PowerShell. ![]() I wrote in an earlier post about easily installing multiple applications on macOS.
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