If I run in Windows Terminal PowerShell tab:

start-process Powershell -Verb runas

It will create a new window. Is there a way to create a tab in Windows Terminal instead?

CodePudding user response：

You must use the Windows Terminal CLI, wt.exe, as the target executable for Start-Process, and pass it the PowerShell CLI (powershell.exe for Windows PowerShell, pwsh.exe for PowerShell (Core) 7 ) as its argument; e.g., with powershell.exe:

Start-Process -Verb RunAs wt.exe powershell.exe

Note that if PowerShell is used as your default Windows Terminal profile, you needn't specify an argument for wt.exe at all.

If you have a Windows Terminal profile defined for PowerShell (which should be true by default for at least Windows PowerShell), you can request it by name or GUID, via the -p option. A profile name must specified in full, with the exact case as defined, (otherwise it is ignored and the default profile is used); e.g.:

Start-Process -Verb RunAs wt.exe '-p "Windows PowerShell"'

Note:

• The first elevated Windows Terminal process invariably opens in a new window.

• If at least one such process already exists, you can request that additional elevated processes open as tabs in that window with -w 0 as the first option; e.g.:

  Start-Process -Verb RunAs wt.exe '-w 0 -p "Windows PowerShell"'