Welcome to the 295th post on tommymaynard.com. It’s countdown to 300!
Update: There’s a updated post here.
It was only yesterday that I shared something I was writing in PowerShell. It was my take on Get-PSDrive that included a built-in way to change locations, within the file system, by entering the number that corresponds to a drive location. Take a look at the Tweet (and yes, I’m aware of my misspelling).
I just wrote this tool. It's s PSDrive selection menu. It lists the current available drives, indicates the current drive as with a >, and changes to whichever drive you choose. #PowerShell pic.twitter.com/5lmOfVzRMd
— Tommy Maynard (@thetommymaynard) August 14, 2018
There was definitely some interest on Twitter. Because of that, I set out to correct at least a couple errors that needed a fix. For now, it’s up and available on the PowerShell Gallery at https://www.powershellgallery.com/packages/Show-PSDriveMenu/1.0/DisplayScript. Use the PowerShellGet, Install-Script function to install it.
PS > Install-Script -Name Show-PSDriveMenu -Scope CurrentUser
Here’s an image from the ConsoleHost. There’s a small visual change that’s been added since the above Tweet. Numeric values with one digit (1-9) have an extra space in front of the digit in order that everything lines up well.
Update: It appears that there may be a problem at first launch, as the marker that indicates the current drive (>), doesn’t appear. It does, however, on subsequent uses. I’ll have to take a look at that at some point and see if it can be isolated and resolved. If you catch it (and, seriously there’s a minimal amount of code in this function), feel free to let me know.
Update: If you want this function (downloaded as a script file from the PowerShell Gallery), to load each time you start PowerShell, then add one of the two lines of code below. The first is for Windows PowerShell (version 5.1 and earlier), and the second is for PowerShell Core (version 6.0 and later). You know, when Windows PowerShell and PowerShell began to mean different things.
. $env:USERPROFILE\Documents\WindowsPowerShell\Scripts\Show-PSDriveMenu.ps1 . $env:USERPROFILE\Documents\PowerShell\Scripts\Show-PSDriveMenu.ps1