I'm trying to figure out the best way to add a program to PS's path. When I look at $env:Path, I see tons of different entries pointing to various programs on the system that seem to have been added by their installers. This would suggest that I could just add another entry pointing to the .exe I want to have available in the path, but if I do this every time I want to have an application available at the shell my path is going to get hideously cluttered.
In bash, I would normally make a bin directory within my home directory, add it to the path at startup in my .bashrc, and then make symlinks in that directory for anything I wanted available. This keeps the path clean and easy to manage. Is there a way to
do something like this in PS, or is the standard solution just to add a new entry to the path for every application you want until it's like a million miles long and unreadable? Putting symlinks or shortcuts in directories already in the path hasn't worked
so far.