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The ConvertTo-XML Cmdlet

Using the Add-Content Cmdlet

Using the Add-History Cmdlet

Using the Clear-Content Cmdlet

Using the Compare-Object Cmdlet

Using the Convert-Path Cmdlet

Using the ConvertTo-Html Cmdlet

Using the Copy-Item Cmdlet

Using the Export-Alias Cmdlet

Using the Export-Clixml Cmdlet

Using the Export-Csv Cmdlet

Using the Foreach-Object Cmdlet

Using the Format-List Cmdlet

Using the Format-Wide Cmdlet

Using the Get-Acl Cmdlet

Using the Get-Alias Cmdlet

Using the Get-AuthenticodeSignature Cmdlet

Using the Get-ChildItem Cmdlet

Using the Get-Command Cmdlet

Using the Get-Content Cmdlet

Using the Get-Culture Cmdlet

Using the Get-Date Cmdlet

Using the Get-Eventlog Cmdlet

Using the Get-ExecutionPolicy Cmdlet

Using the Get-Help Cmdlet

Using the Get-History Cmdlet

Using the Get-Host Cmdlet

Using the Get-Item Cmdlet

Using the Get-ItemProperty Cmdlet

Using the Get-Location Cmdlet

Using the Get-Member Cmdlet

Using the Get-PSDrive Cmdlet

Using the Get-PSProvider Cmdlet

Using the Get-Process Cmdlet

Using the Get-Service Cmdlet

Using the Get-Unique Cmdlet

Using the Get-WMiObject Cmdlet

Using the Group-Object Cmdlet

Using the Import-Alias Cmdlet

Using the Import-Clixml Cmdlet

Using the Import-Csv Cmdlet

Using the Invoke-Expression Cmdlet

Using the Invoke-History Cmdlet

Using the Invoke-Item Cmdlet

Using the Measure-Command Cmdlet

Using the Measure-Object Cmdlet

Using the Move-Item Cmdlet

Using the New-Alias Cmdlet

Using the New-Item Cmdlet

Using the New-PSDrive Cmdlet

Using the New-Timespan Cmdlet

Using the Out-File Cmdlet

Using the Out-Host Cmdlet

Using the Output-Printer Cmdlet

Using the Read-Host Cmdlet

Using the Remove-Item Cmdlet

Using the Remove-PSDrive Cmdlet

Using the Rename-Item Cmdlet

Using the Restart-Service Cmdlet

Using the Resume-Service Cmdlet

Using the Select-Object Cmdlet

Using the Select-String Cmdlet

Using the Set-Alias Cmdlet

Using the Set-Content Cmdlet

Using the Set-Date Cmdlet

Using the Set-ExecutionPolicy Cmdlet

Using the Set-Location Cmdlet

Using the Set-Service Cmdlet

Using the Sort-Object Cmdlet

Using the Start-Service Cmdlet

Using the Start-Sleep Cmdlet

Using the Stop-Process Cmdlet

Using the Stop-Service Cmdlet

Using the Suspend-Service Cmdlet

Using the Tee-Object Cmdlet

Using the Test-Path Cmdlet

Using the Where-Object Cmdlet

Using the Write-Host Cmdlet

Using the Write-Warning Cmdlet

Windows PowerShell Drives and Namespaces

Windows PowerShell Sessions

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Using the Get-PSDrive Cmdlet

Listing Your Windows PowerShell Drives

Windows PowerShell maps a number of “drives” that make it easy for you to navigate various namespaces on your computer; by default this includes not only the physical disk drives on your computer but also such things as the registry hives HKEY_CURRENT_USER (drive HKCU) and HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE (drive HKLM). To return a list of all the Windows PowerShell drives on your machine, simply use the Get-PSDrive cmdlet:



Get-PSDrive

In return, Windows PowerShell will return information similar to this:



Name       Provider      Root                                   CurrentLocation
----       --------      ----                                   ---------------
Alias      Alias
C          FileSystem    C:\                                 ...Settings\kenmyer
cert       Certificate   \
D          FileSystem    D:\
E          FileSystem    E:\
Env        Environment
Function   Function
HKCU       Registry      HKEY_CURRENT_USER
HKLM       Registry      HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
Variable   Variable

Alternatively, you might want to pipe these results into the Format-List cmdlet; when you do that, you’ll get back additional information (such as the full provider name) for each drive. That command looks like this:



Get-PSDrive | Format-List

And the returned data will look like this:



Name            : Alias
Description     : Drive containing a view of the aliases stored in session state.
Provider        : Microsoft.Windows PowerShell.Core\Alias
Root            :
CurrentLocation :

Name            : C
Description     :
Provider        : Microsoft.Windows PowerShell.Core\FileSystem
Root            : C:\
CurrentLocation : Documents and Settings\kenmyer

You can also specify an individual drive name (or use wildcard characters) to return information about a single drive or set of drives. This command returns information for only drive C:



Get-PSDrive c

And this command returns information for the two registry drives (both of which have names starting with the letter H):



Get-PSDrive h*

Get-PSDrive Aliases
gdr

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