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9.3. Using the set-location Cmdlet

Once you find supported drives with Windows PowerShell, you will likely want to navigate around in them. You use the set-location cmdlet to do that. To simplify the use of providers and drives, Windows PowerShell defines several aliases.

To find the aliases for set-location on your system, type this command:

get-alias |
where-object {$_.Definition -eq "set-location"}

The results are shown in Figure 9-5. Whether you use sl, cd or chdir is your choice.

Figure 9.5. Figure 9-5

The get-alias cmdlet with no parameters returns objects representing all aliases on the current system. The where-object cmdlet in the second step of the pipeline filters those so that only those whose Definition property has the value of set-location are passed on to the default formatter.

The set-location cmdlet supports the following parameters in addition to the common parameters:

• path — Specifies the path for the new working location. This is a positional parameter in position 1. The default is the empty string.

• literalPath — Specifies a path. The value of this parameter is to be interpreted literally. In other words, any wildcard characters in the path are treated literally.

• passthru — Specifies that the object created by the cmdlet is to be passed along the pipeline.

• stackname — Specifies the stack to which the location is being set. If no value is specified, then the ...