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Windows version 'Microsoft® Windows Vista™ Ultimate ' PowerShell help files on 2016-06-23.
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Resolves the wildcard characters in a path, and displays the path contents.
Resolve-Path [-LiteralPath] <string[]> [-Credential <PSCredential>] [-Relative] [-UseTransaction] [<CommonParameters>]
Resolve-Path [-Path] <string[]> [-Credential <PSCredential>] [-Relative] [-UseTransaction] [<CommonParameters>]
The Resolve-Path cmdlet interprets the wildcard characters in a path and displays the items and containers at the location specified by the path,
such as the files and folders or registry keys and subkeys.
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C:\PS>resolve-path ~
C:\Users\User01
Description
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This command resolves the path represented by the tilde character (~), which signifies the home path.
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C:\PS>resolve-path windows
C:\Windows
Description
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When run from the root of the C: drive, this command returns the path to the Windows directory in the C: drive.
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C:\PS>"C:\windows\*" | resolve-path
Description
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This command returns all of the directories in the C:\Windows directory. The command uses a pipeline operator (|) to send a path string to Resolv
e-Path.
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C:\PS>resolve-path \\Server01\public
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This command resolves a Universal Naming Convention (UNC) path and returns the shares in the path.
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C:\PS>resolve-path c:\prog* -relative
..\Program Files
..\Program Files (x86)
..\programs.txt
Description
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This command returns relative paths for the directories at the root of the C: drive.
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C:\PS>resolve-path -literalPath test[xml]
Description
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This command resolves the path to the Test[xml] subdirectory of the current directory. It uses the LiteralPath parameter to indicate that the bra
ckets are not regular expression characters.