Installing PowerShell on Linux

PowerShell Installation

# Update the list of packages
sudo apt-get update

# Install pre-requisite packages.
sudo apt-get install -y wget apt-transport-https software-properties-common

# Get the version of Ubuntu
source /etc/os-release

# Download the Microsoft repository keys
wget -q https://packages.microsoft.com/config/ubuntu/$VERSION_ID/packages-microsoftprod.deb

# Register the Microsoft repository keys
sudo dpkg -i packages-microsoft-prod.deb

# Delete the Microsoft repository keys file
rm packages-microsoft-prod.deb

# Update the list of packages after we added packages.microsoft.com
sudo apt-get update

# Install PowerShell
sudo apt-get install -y powershell

Start PowerShell

pwsh

Install Gpaste for clipboard functionality on Linux

sudo apt install xclip xsel
sudo apt install gpaste

At the time I decided to migrate to Linux from Windows, I had a large time investment in learning PowerShell so I decided to give PowerShell a try on Linux. Now after several years of predominately using Linux, I almost exclusively find myself using the PowerShell environment.

For me, one of the big attractions to using PowerShell is that the same code it will run on Linux, MacOS, and Window. One does need to code PowerShell in a OS neutral manner for this to work