Chapter 5. The PowerShell Navigation Model

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Navigation through the Registry

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Providers and Drives

83

Navigation Commandlets

84

Paths

85

Defining Drives

87

Besides object pipelining, Windows PowerShell (WPS) has another interesting concept to offer: the uniform navigation paradigm for all kinds of data. The call of the command Get-PSDrive not only lists expected drives but also environment variables (env), the registry (HKCU, HKLM), Windows certificate store (cert), PowerShell aliases (Alias), PowerShell variables (Variable), and PowerShell functions (Function). WPS interprets this data also as drives. Consequently, you have to use a colon in the call: Get-ChildItem Alias: lists all defined aliases, just like Get-Alias.

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