Duplicate current powershell session in a new window

Question

Is it possible to duplicate a powershell session in a new window? I often find that I've created environment variables, activated a specific python virtualenvironment, defined one-off functions, custom prompt, etc. and it would be handy to duplicate those specific, one-off details of the current session into another session in another window.

Answer 1

You should use Powershell profile. In the profile you can have all of those functions, variables etc. Basically every time you open a powershell window, you can load your custom powershell profile which in turn will also load your settings as defined. Please see this link: Powershell profile.

Answer 2

There's nothing I'm aware of, out of the box, that will do this. You could write a script to dump all of the things you care about, and then paste those into your new window.

get-childitem -path env: 

will show all your environment variables.

Get-Variable 

will show your powershell variables.

Get-ChildItem -path function: 

will show all functions. If you have a naming convention for your custom ones, you could filter on just those.