How to Navigate the Windows Folder Structure with PowerShell
PowerShell uses several commands to navigate the Windows folder structure, explains Brien Posey.
“When you open a new PowerShell window, PowerShell usually starts you in your user profile directory,” he says, but “PowerShell operations often require you to navigate to a different location within the folder hierarchy.”
Here, Posey shows how to use various PowerShell commands to quickly move around Windows folder structures, and in a related PowerShell video tutorial, he demonstrates how to initialize and partition a disk on a Windows 10 system.
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