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the best prompt function for powershell

Adam Al-Rahman answered on January 29, 2023 Popularity 3/10 Helpfulness 1/10

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powershell custom prompt

<#
.Description
Custom Prompt() function with 3 features: 
1. Show execution times for commands
2. Reduce path length to show only 2 parent folders
3. Show git status if the folder is under source control

.Kudos
As mentioned in the post, I mixed the script based on existing scripts by 
@ryanyates1990, @texmandie, @fatherjack, @FredWeinmann, @psdbatools, @cl

#>
function Prompt {
    
    try {        
        $history = Get-History -ErrorAction Ignore -Count 1
        if ($history) {
            Write-Host "[" -NoNewline
            $ts = New-TimeSpan $history.StartExecutionTime $history.EndExecutionTime
            switch ($ts) {
                {$_.TotalSeconds -lt 1} { 
                    [int]$d = $_.TotalMilliseconds
                    '{0}ms' -f ($d) | Write-Host -ForegroundColor Black -NoNewline -BackgroundColor DarkGreen
                    break
                }
                {$_.totalminutes -lt 1} { 
                    [int]$d = $_.TotalSeconds
                    '{0}s' -f ($d) | Write-Host -ForegroundColor Black -NoNewline -BackgroundColor DarkYellow
                    break
                }
                {$_.totalminutes -ge 1} { 
                    "{0:HH:mm:ss}" -f ([datetime]$ts.Ticks) | Write-Host -ForegroundColor Gray -NoNewline  -BackgroundColor Red
                    break
                }
            }
            Write-Host "] " -NoNewline
        }
        if(Get-Module Posh-git) {
            Write-VcsStatus
            Write-Host " " -NoNewline
        }
    }
    catch { }
    # New line
    Write-Host ""
    
    # show the drive and then last 2 directories of current path
    if (($pwd.Path.Split('\').count -gt 3)){
        write-host "$($pwd.path.split('\')[0], '...', $pwd.path.split('\')[-2], $pwd.path.split('\')[-1] -join ('\'))" -NoNewline
    }
    else{
        Write-Host "$($pwd.path)" -NoNewline
    }
    "> "
}

#Adjust your post-git path! I installed it with chocolatey!
Import-Module 'C:\tools\poshgit\dahlbyk-posh-git-9bda399\src\posh-git.psd1'

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Contributed on Jan 29 2023

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