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Get the Current Location in Windows PowerShell

Problem

You want to determine the current location.

Solution

To determine the current location, use the GetLocation cmdlet: PS >GetLocation

Path

C:\temp PS >$currentLocation = (GetLocation).Path PS >$currentLocation C:\temp

Discussion

One problem that sometimes impacts scripts that work with the .NET Framework is that PowerShell’s concept of “current location” isn’t always the same as the PowerShell.exe process’s “current directory.” Take, for example:

PS >GetLocation

Path

C:\temp

PS >GetProcess | ExportCliXml processes.xml PS >$reader = NewObject Xml.XmlTextReader processes.xml PS >$reader.BaseURI file:///C:/Documents and Settings/Lee/processes.xml

PowerShell keeps these concepts separate because it supports multiple pipelines of execution. The processwide current directory affects the entire process, so you would risk corrupting the environment of all background tasks as you navigate around the shell if that changed the process’s current directory.

When you use filenames in most .NET methods, the best practice is to use fully qualified pathnames. The ResolvePath cmdlet makes this easy:

PS >GetLocation

Path

C:\temp

PS >GetProcess | ExportCliXml processes.xml PS >$reader = NewObject Xml.XmlTextReader (ResolvePath processes.xml) PS >$reader.BaseURI file:///C:/temp/processes.xml

If you want to access a path that doesn’t already exist, use the JoinPath in combination with the GetLocation cmdlet: PS >JoinPath (GetLocation) newfile.txt

C:\temp\newfile.txt

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