How to install PowerShell on macOS

Powershell is available for macOS 10.13 or higher, you can get it installed using Brew,

Make sure brew is installed on your macOS - Installing brew on macOS

Run command: brew install --cask powershell

Once the installation is completed - you can check if the installation was successful by switching to Powershell using pwsh command.

% brew install --cask powershell
Downloading https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/releases/download/v7.2.1/powershell-7.2.1-osx-arm64.pkg
...
...
==> Running installer for Powershell; your password may be necessary.
Package installers may write to any location; options such as `--appdir` are ignored.
Password:
installer: Package name is PowerShell - 7.2.1
installer: Installing at base path /
installer: The installation was successful.
🍺  powershell was successfully installed!

Trobleshooting: If you get an error zsh: command not found brew, you will first need to get HomeBrew installed. In the terminal run the below command to install brew.

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"

If on macOS Ventura 13.0 or higher

Run the below command in a terminal,
```
brew tap homebrew/cask-versions
```
Install PowerShell command,
```
brew install --cask powershell-preview
```
Running PowerShell Preview Prompt:
```
pwsh-preview
```

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