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Microsoft® Windows PowerShell™ Step By Step
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Microsoft® Windows PowerShell™ Step By Step

by Ed Wilson
May 2007
Beginner content levelBeginner
320 pages
8h 23m
English
Microsoft Press
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Understanding File System Provider

The file system provider is the easiest Windows PowerShell provider to understand—it provides access to the file system. When Windows PowerShell is launched, it automatically opens on the C:\PSDrive. Using the Windows PowerShell filesystem provider, you can create both directories and files. You can retrieve properties of files and directories, and you can delete them as well. In addition, you can open files and append or overwrite data to the files. This can be done with inline code, or by using the pipelining feature of Windows PowerShell. The commands used in the procedure are in the IdentifyingPropertiesOfDirectories.txt, CreatingFoldersAndFiles.txt, and ReadingAndWritingForFiles.txt files.

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