This is the built-in help made by Microsoft for the command 'Get-PSProvider', in PowerShell version 4 - as retrieved from
Windows version 'Microsoft Windows 8.1 Enterprise' PowerShell help files on 2016-06-23.
For PowerShell version 3 and up, where you have Update-Help, this command was run just before creating the web pages from the help files.
Gets information about the specified Windows PowerShell provider.
Get-PSProvider [[-PSProvider] <String[]>] [<CommonParameters>]
The Get-PSProvider cmdlet gets the Windows PowerShell providers in the current session. You can get a particular drive or all drives in the session.
Windows PowerShell providers let you access a variety of data stores as though they were file system drives. For information about Windows PowerShell providers, see a
bout_Providers.
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PS C:\>get-psprovider
This command displays a list of all available Windows PowerShell providers.
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PS C:\>get-psprovider f*, r* | format-list
This command displays a list of all Windows PowerShell providers with names that begin with the letter "f" or "r".
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PS C:\>get-psprovider | format-table name, module, pssnapin -auto
Name Module PSSnapIn
---- ------ --------
Test TestModule
WSMan Microsoft.WSMan.Management
Alias Microsoft.PowerShell.Core
Environment Microsoft.PowerShell.Core
FileSystem Microsoft.PowerShell.Core
Function Microsoft.PowerShell.Core
Registry Microsoft.PowerShell.Core
Variable Microsoft.PowerShell.Core
Certificate Microsoft.PowerShell.Security
PS C:\>get-psprovider | where {$_.pssnapin -eq "Microsoft.PowerShell.Security"}
Name Capabilities Drives
---- ------------ ------
Certificate ShouldProcess {cert}
These commands find the Windows PowerShell snap-ins or modules that added providers to your session. All Windows PowerShell elements, including providers, originate i
n a snap-in or in a module.
These commands use the PSSnapin and Module properties of the ProviderInfo object that Get-PSProvider returns. The values of these properties contain the name of the s
nap-in or module that adds the provider.
The first command gets all of the providers in the session and formats them in a table with the values of their Name, Module, and PSSnapin properties.
The second command uses the Where-Object cmdlet to get the providers that come from the Microsoft.PowerShell.Security snap-in.
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PS C:\>resolve-path ~
Path
----
C:\Users\User01
PS C:\>(get-psprovider FileSystem).home
C:\Users\User01
This example shows that the tilde symbol (~) represents the value of the Home property of the FileSystem provider. The Home property value is optional, but for the Fi
leSystem provider, it is defined as $env:homedrive\$env:homepath or $home.