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Getting Started with Powershell

You're reading from   Getting Started with Powershell Learn the fundamentals of PowerShell to build reusable scripts and functions to automate administrative tasks with Windows

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781783558506
Length 180 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. First Steps 2. Building Blocks FREE CHAPTER 3. Objects and PowerShell 4. Life on the Assembly Line 5. Formatting Output 6. Scripts 7. Functions 8. Modules 9. File I/O 10. WMI and CIM 11. Web Server Administration A. Next Steps
Index

Where do modules live?


PowerShell defines an environment variable called PSMODULEPATH, which contains a list of folders that it checks for modules. Viewing PSMODULEPATH is simplified by the –split operator to split the path wherever it sees a semicolon:

Here, you can see that there are four folders where PowerShell is looking for modules in this session. For it to find our AreaFunctions module, there needs to be a AreaFunctions subfolder in one of these locations with our psm1 file in it.

Once we have created a folder and placed the AreaFunctions.psm1 file in it, we can import the module by name rather than by path:

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