PSColor
Provides color highlighting for some basic PowerShell output. It currently rewrites "Out-Default" to colorize:
- FileInfo & DirectoryInfo objects (Get-ChildItem, dir, ls etc.)
- ServiceController objects (Get-Service)
- MatchInfo objects (Select-String etc.)
Installation
The easiest way to install, by far, is to use PsGet. Once PsGet is installed you can simply run Install-Module PSColor.
Alternativly, you can download the file PSColor.zip and extract it to a folder named PSColor in any of your PowerShell module paths. (Run $env:PSModulePath to see your paths.)
If you want PSColor to be ran automatically you can add Import-Module PSColor to your PowerShell Profile. To locate your profile, run $profile
Configuration
You can configure PSColor by overriding the values of colors, patterns etc. Configurations should be added after Import-Module PSColor in your PowerShell profile. The default configuration looks like:
$global:PSColor = @{
File = @{
Default = @{ Color = 'White' }
Directory = @{ Color = 'Cyan'}
Hidden = @{ Color = 'DarkGray'; Pattern = '^\.' }
Code = @{ Color = 'Magenta'; Pattern = '\.(java|c|cpp|cs|js|css|html)$' }
Executable = @{ Color = 'Red'; Pattern = '\.(exe|bat|cmd|py|pl|ps1|psm1|vbs|rb|reg)$' }
Text = @{ Color = 'Yellow'; Pattern = '\.(txt|cfg|conf|ini|csv|log|config|xml|yml|md|markdown)$' }
Compressed = @{ Color = 'Green'; Pattern = '\.(zip|tar|gz|rar|jar|war)$' }
}
Service = @{
Default = @{ Color = 'White' }
Running = @{ Color = 'DarkGreen' }
Stopped = @{ Color = 'DarkRed' }
}
Match = @{
Default = @{ Color = 'White' }
Path = @{ Color = 'Cyan'}
LineNumber = @{ Color = 'Yellow' }
Line = @{ Color = 'White' }
}
NoMatch = @{
Default = @{ Color = 'White' }
Path = @{ Color = 'Cyan'}
LineNumber = @{ Color = 'Yellow' }
Line = @{ Color = 'White' }
}
}E.g. if you would like to override the red color for Executables, in favour of blue; you could add the following to your PowerShell profile:
$global:PSColor.File.Executable.Color = 'Blue'