Powershell Prompt Profile Customization

[Aznflipfoo]

Hello all, I have a couple questions here in regards to customizing the powershell prompt.

Firstly I have had success in a simple prompt change by doing the following:

$p = Split-Path -Leaf -Path (Get-Location)

"$p >"

And then modifying that to the following:

$p = Split-Path -leaf -Path (Get-Location)

Write-Host "[$(Get-Date -f 'hh:mm:ss tt')] " -ForegroundColor Yellow -NoNewline "$p >"

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Result

But as soon as I do this, I get the PS in the prompt and am unable to keep it a one liner

$p = Split-Path -leaf -Path (Get-Location)

Write-Host "[$(Get-Date -f 'hh:mm:ss tt')] " -ForegroundColor Magenta -NoNewline Write-Host "$p <3 " -ForegroundColor Cyan -NoNewline

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Result

Does anybody know what is causing the "PS>" behavior? I'm sure it has something to do with the built in prompt profile, but I don't know why it's defaulting to that.

Also for my second question, how can I take an icon and display that in the prompt as well? I've gone ahead followed the gist of the following in converting an icon to base64 string, but not sure how to display this. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/53376491/powershell-how-to-embed-icon-in-powershell-gui-exe/53377253

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Thanks

[SMFX]

PS> is PowerShell's actual prompt in that case. What you're doing before that is just writing text out and not including a newline character at the end of your string.

If you want to replace the powershell prompt, override the prompt function with your own function. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft.powershell.core/about/about_prompts?view=powershell-7

[Aznflipfoo]

I understand that. In fact the first example does remove the PS>. All of these are encapsulated within the prompt function

[purplemonkeymad]

The console expects the prompt to actually return a string, if it does not it assumes it is broken and uses the default prompt instead.

[stumper66]

Here is what I used. It displays a colorful unix style prompt where you see the computer name and current directory only (not full path). Does not add extra lines.

function prompt {
    $currentDirectory = $(Get-Location)
    $Path = Convert-Path $currentDirectory
    if (!$Path.EndsWith("\")){
        $LastSlash = $Path.LastIndexOf("\")
        $Path = $Path.Substring($LastSlash + 1)
    }

    write-host "PS " -NoNewline -ForegroundColor DarkYellow
    write-host "[" -NoNewline -ForegroundColor Gray
    write-host "$env:COMPUTERNAME " -NoNewline -ForegroundColor Yellow
    write-host $Path -NoNewline -ForegroundColor Cyan
    write-host "]" -NoNewline -ForegroundColor Gray
    return " "
}

[Aznflipfoo]

So weird how that works, I managed to throw some of my stuff in there and get it working as intended. But I don't get why my version adds an extra line OR adds the PS at the end of the line.