PowerShell: Drive

A PowerShell drive is an abstraction for a data store where the stored data can be accessed in a file system like manner. Two prominent examples of such stores are file systems and the registry.

A drive contains two generic types of objects: items and item properties.

In the file system provider, an item is a file or a directory.

The command noun used for working with drives is psDrive.

Location

Some drives (such as those whose providers are Registry or Filesystem) have a current location.

This location is shown, for example, in the property CurrentLocation with the cmdlet get-psDrive -psProvider fileSystem.

Cmdlets

The cmdlet that allows to see the currently available drives is get-psDrive.

A new drive is created with new-psDrive.

Generic cmdlets to work with a drive's content are

clear-item
copy-item
get-childItem
get-item
invoke-item
move-item
new-item
remove-item
rename-item
set-item
clear-itemProperty
copy-itemProperty
get-itemProperty
move-itemProperty
new-itemProperty
rename-itemProperty
set-itemProperty

The location (which is the PowerShell lingo for path) within (or of) a drive is (not very surprisingly) set with set-location.

TODO

The WSMan drive (which seems to be related to the WinRM service).

PS C:\> ls wsman:\localhost

PowerShell: Drive

Location

Cmdlets

TODO

See also