PowerShell: How to customize prompt?

Question

I like to define the env variable PROMPT as $p$_$g so prompt starts in a new line.

But seems to be not applying to my PowerShell prompt :-(

dir function:/ shows that a name "prompt" is already defined.

Any way I can get my prompt customized in a PowerShell console, without messing up with the already defined "prompt" name?

Answer 1

The prompt function is just the default prompt supplied by Powershell. If you put a new prompt function into your profile, it will overwrite the existing one - but if you remove the custom definition in your profile, the previous function will be used again.

Edit your profile with:

notepad $profile

Then add your custom prompt function:

function prompt {
    "$pwd
    >"
}

Restart powershell and you will have your new prompt.

To revert, just edit $profile again and remove the new function.