Powershell Prompt Double Execution

From @whatevergeek on August 18, 2016 18:44

Version: powershell_6.0.0-alpha.9-1ubuntu1.14.04.1_amd64.deb Platform: Ubuntu 14.04

Steps to reproduce

1. Modify $profile file and add the following function inside function prompt { Write-Host (“This>”) return " " }
2. Exit and re-enter powershell
3. Check the commandline prompt

Expected behavior

It should only print “This>” once.

Actual behavior

It prints “This>” twice.

Environment data

> $PSVersionTable
Name                           Value                                                                 
----                           -----                                                                 
PSVersion                      6.0.0-alpha                                                           
PSEdition                      Core                                                                  
PSCompatibleVersions           {1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0...}                                               
BuildVersion                   3.0.0.0                                                               
GitCommitId                    v6.0.0-alpha.9                                                        
CLRVersion                                                                                           
WSManStackVersion              3.0                                                                   
PSRemotingProtocolVersion      2.3                                                                   
SerializationVersion           1.1.0.1       

Copied from original issue: PowerShell/PowerShell#1897

[lzybkr]

I’ll have an official prerelease build out next week if you want to verify this is fixed, otherwise you can grab a build out of appveyor here.

[pcgeek86]

@SteveL-MSFT Cool, thank you for calling that out!