Mastering Windows PowerShell Scripting - Third Edition

Navigating

Set-Location, which has the alias cd, is used to navigate around a provider's hierarchy, for example:

Set-Location \                # The root of the current drive 
Set-Location Windows          # A child container named Windows 
Set-Location ..               # Navigate up one level 
Set-Location ..\..            # Navigate up two levels 
Set-Location Cert:            # Change to a different drive 
Set-Location HKLM:\Software   # Change to a specific child container under a drive 

Set-Location may only be used to switch to a container object.

The print working directory pwd variable shows the current location across all providers:

PS> $pwdPath ---- HKLM:\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion 

pwd and .NET .NET classes and methods are oblivious to PowerShell's current directory. When the following ...