How can I run powershell.exe with Anaconda in new windows terminal profiles?

I realize I'm late of some years but I had a similar problem and stranded up here looking for an answer. So, I'm hoping that this is useful for people like me in the future.

After some time tinkering I generated an Anaconda profile:

• copy paste an existing profile
• generate guid here
• open C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Anaconda3 (64-bit)
• right click on Anaconda Powershell Prompt (Miniconda3) and go to Properties
• copy the entire content of the target field and paste it on the field commandline (make sure the field is commandline and not source)
• escape all the \ characters (\ --> \\)
• Change the name field

You should have something like this

{        "guid": "{generated guid}",        "hidden": false,        "name": "Anaconda",        "commandline": "powershell.exe -ExecutionPolicy ByPass -NoExit -Command & 'C:\\ProgramData\\Miniconda3\\shell\\condabin\\conda-hook.ps1' ; conda activate 'C:\\ProgramData\\Miniconda3'"            },

As a nice sidenote, you can also create a profile to directly launch an Ipython session or a jupyter notebook.As you may have noticed, lo launch anaconda in the commandline field we are just launching powershell.exe, and then telling the powershell instance to execute a -Command, which is the subsequent string.Were you to add a ; ipython to the command, you would launch an ipython session.

• Copy-paste the settings for cmd from above.

• Go to "C:\Users\Username\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\StartMenu\Programs\Anaconda3 (64-bit)"

• Right-click on "Anaconda Prompt (Anaconda3)"

• Copy the content from the target field and paste it on the field commandline

  Mine is %windir%\System32\cmd.exe "/K" C:\bin\Anaconda3\Scripts\activate.bat C:\bin\Anaconda3

• Replace \ with \

• Thanks to the above answer by Marco Necci, this is a more clear version with cmd and anaconda

  "commandline" : "%windir%\\System32\\cmd.exe /K C:\\bin\\Anaconda3\\Scripts\\activate.bat C:\\bin\\Anaconda3"

Building upon Navaneeth M et al, I contribute a command line which includes the default Anaconda location using USERPROFILE environment variable, specifying non-default Anaconda env (fastai), starting directory and color scheme.

"commandline": "%windir%\\System32\\cmd.exe /K %USERPROFILE%\\Anaconda3\\Scripts\\activate.bat fastai","colorscheme": "Solarized Light","startingDirectory": "c:\\sw",

Pro Tip: Use keybindings to add a hotkey which opens a new tab in the specified project directory. For example, use ctrl-b to open a new Anaconda tab in just the right place.

"keybindings": [  {    "keys": [ "ctrl+b" ],    "command": {      "action": "newTab",      "profile": "Anaconda",      "startingDirectory": "c:\\sw\\myproject\\myprojectdirectory"    }  }]