lalyos/powershell repository overview

⁠ PowerShell

Welcome to the PowerShell GitHub Community! PowerShell is a cross-platform (Windows, Linux, and OS X) automation and configuration tool/framework that works well with your existing tools and is optimized for dealing with structured data (e.g. JSON, CSV, XML, etc.), REST APIs, and object models. It includes a command-line shell, an associated scripting language and a framework for processing cmdlets.

⁠New to PowerShell?

If you are new to PowerShell and would like to learn more, we recommend reviewing the getting started⁠ documentation.

⁠Get PowerShell

You can download and install a PowerShell package for any of the following platforms.

To install a specific version, visit releases⁠.

⁠Chat Room

Want to chat with other members of the PowerShell community?

⁠Building the Repository

If you have any problems building, please consult the developer FAQ⁠.

⁠Build status of master branches

AppVeyor (Windows)	Travis CI (Linux / OS X)

⁠Downloading the Source Code

The PowerShell repository has a number of other repositories embedded as submodules.

To make things easy, you can just clone recursively:

git clone --recursive https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell.git

If you already cloned but forgot to use --recursive, you can update submodules manually:

git submodule update --init

See working with the PowerShell repository⁠ for more information.

⁠Developing and Contributing

Please see the Contribution Guide⁠ for how to develop and contribute.

If you have any problems, please consult the known issues⁠, developer FAQ⁠, and GitHub issues⁠. If you do not see your problem captured, please file a new issue⁠ and follow the provided template. If you are developing .NET Core C# applications targeting PowerShell Core, please check out our FAQ⁠ to learn more about the PowerShell SDK NuGet package.

⁠Legal and Licensing

PowerShell is licensed under the MIT license⁠.

⁠Governance

Governance policy for PowerShell project is described here⁠.

⁠Code of Conduct

This project has adopted the Microsoft Open Source Code of Conduct⁠. For more information see the Code of Conduct FAQ⁠ or contact [email protected]⁠ with any additional questions or comments.