Installing PowerShell on Mac

Microsoft now supports PowerShell on the Mac and with just a few commands, you can have a PowerShell IDE running on Mac's running macOS 10.12 or higher. To install PowerShell on a Mac:

1. Open a Mac terminal window.
2. Install Homebrew using the following command (you will be prompted during install for your Mac's password):
   
   /usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
   
   
3. Install PowerShell using the following command:
   
   brew cask install powershell
   
   
4. To edit and work with PowerShell scripts, download and install Visual Studio Code from here:
   
   https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/mac/
   
   Extract the application from the ZIP file and copy it to your Applications folder.

When you first run Visual Studio Code and open a PowerShell file, you will be prompted to install the PowerShell utilities. Install these utilities to let you edit and run scripts from within Visual Studio Code.