Install a PowerShell Module from GitHub

Not all PowerShell Modules are published to the PowerShellGallery but are hosted on GitHub.

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Changes

1.5.0

Thank you to Max Renner for the pull request.

• Use [System.Environment]::OSVersion.Platform -eq "Unix" as a catch all for non-windows systems
• Replaced the hard coded Module paths assigned to $dest with environment variables instead.
• Added if logic for Windows vs Non-Windows machines in assigning $psd1 and in the final Copy-Item statement.

1.4.0

• Fix module installation path (Thanks JonathanPitre)

v 0.5.0

• Allow for copying folders recursively. Thank you to:
  • https://github.com/montereyharris
  • https://github.com/jayvdb
  • https://github.com/JonathanPitre

In Action