Working with providers

Each provider shares a common set of commands, such as Set-Location, Get-Item, and New-Item.

Navigating

Set-Location, which has the alias cd, is used to navigate around a provider's hierarchy, for example:

Set-Location \                # The root of the current drive 
Set-Location Windows          # A child container named Windows 
Set-Location ..               # Navigate up one level 
Set-Location ..\..            # Navigate up two levels 
Set-Location Cert:            # Change to a different drive 
Set-Location HKLM:\Software   # Change to a specific child container under a drive 

Set-Location may only be used to switch to a container object.

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