7.2. Drives
Providers would be useless if there were no way to get items from them. The standard mechanism to provide items is through a drive. Similar to Windows drives, PowerShell drives use an identifier followed by a colon like C: or D:. Unlike Windows drives, PowerShell drives can have longer identifiers like Env:, cert:, and HKCU:. We can get information about the drives currently registered on the system with the Get-PSDrive cmdlet:
PS> Get-PSDrive Name Provider Root CurrentLo cation ---- -------- ---- --------- Alias Alias C FileSystem C:\ cert Certificate \ D FileSystem D:\ E FileSystem E:\ Env Environment F FileSystem F:\ Function Function HKCU Registry HKEY_CURRENT_USER Software HKLM Registry HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE ...indows Variable ...
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