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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.

Platform Downloads How to Install
Windows 10 / Server 2016 .msi Instructions
Windows 8.1 / Server 2012 R2 .msi Instructions
Ubuntu 16.04 .deb Instructions
Ubuntu 14.04 .deb Instructions
CentOS 7 .rpm Instructions
OS X 10.11 .pkg Instructions
Docker [Instructions] in-docker

To install a specific version, visit releases.

Chat Room

Want to chat with other members of the PowerShell community?

Join the chat at https://gitter.im/PowerShell/PowerShell

Building the Repository

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

Build status of master branches

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