Linux Powershell Issues: History

So, my Mint system has Powershell. "Let's see how it works," I say.

david@mint ~ $ powershell
PowerShell 6.1.3

https://aka.ms/pscore6-docs
Type 'help' to get help.

PS /home/david> Get-Location
Error reading or writing history file '/home/david/.local/share/powershell/PSReadLine/ConsoleHost_history.txt': Access to the path '/home/david/.local/share/powershell/PSReadLine/ConsoleHost_history.txt' is denied.
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Path
----
/home/david


Well, that's no good. It ran the Get-Location command, but I certainly don't want to see all that red every time I perform an action in the shell. Fortunately, the error shows us where our history file is.

david@mint ~ $ ls -l /home/david/.local/share/powershell/PSReadLine/ConsoleHost_history.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 336 Mar 28 11:04 /home/david/.local/share/powershell/PSReadLine/ConsoleHost_history.txt


Why does root own my history file? I installed Powershell as root, but that still seems odd. Well, there's no going back, so let's take over the file.

david@mint ~ $ sudo chown david /home/david/.local/share/powershell/PSReadLine/ConsoleHost_history.txt
[sudo] password for david:
david@mint ~ $ sudo chgrp david /home/david/.local/share/powershell/PSReadLine/ConsoleHost_history.txt
david@mint ~ $ ls -l /home/david/.local/share/powershell/PSReadLine/ConsoleHost_history.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 david david 336 Mar 28 11:04 /home/david/.local/share/powershell/PSReadLine/ConsoleHost_history.txt


Now, back to the shell:

david@mint ~ $ powershell
PowerShell 6.1.3
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

https://aka.ms/pscore6-docs
Type 'help' to get help.

PS /home/david> Get-Location

Path
----
/home/david

PS /home/david> Get-History

  Id CommandLine
  -- -----------
   1 Get-Location