Powershell – Get Current Drive Letter Using Powershell

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All I'm looking for is a way to get the current drive letter that I am currently running the powershell script from.

I know I can get the current path using Get-Location but is there a way to extract the drive letter without doing some kind of substring operation?

Best Answer

Yes, you can get the drive letter without string operations:

(get-location).Drive.Name

Remember, that PowerShell seldom returns strings, but rich objects. You can always examine your further options from a result by using get-member.

Also note, that if you are not on the file system provider, the Name might not be a one-character string.

Edit:

As per x0n's comment below, here is a shorthand version:

$pwd.drive.name

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Remove-Item -Recurse -Force some_dir

does indeed work as advertised here.

rm -r -fo some_dir

are shorthand aliases that work too.

As far as I understood it, the -Recurse parameter just doesn't work correctly when you try deleting a filtered set of files recursively. For killing a single dir and everything below it seems to work fine.

Powershell – Determine installed PowerShell version

Use $PSVersionTable.PSVersion to determine the engine version. If the variable does not exist, it is safe to assume the engine is version 1.0.

Note that $Host.Version and (Get-Host).Version are not reliable - they reflect the version of the host only, not the engine. PowerGUI, PowerShellPLUS, etc. are all hosting applications, and they will set the host's version to reflect their product version — which is entirely correct, but not what you're looking for.

PS C:\> $PSVersionTable.PSVersion

Major  Minor  Build  Revision
-----  -----  -----  --------
4      0      -1     -1

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