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In this tutorial video, PowerShell expert Brien Posey explains how to use PowerShell to navigate the Windows file system. The video explains two different ways to navigate the file system: one is by using commands inherited from DOS, and the other is by using PowerShell cmdlets.
The tutorial covers creating folders, accessing subfolders, dropping down multiple levels, and removing folders.
The below transcript is lightly edited for length and clarity.
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Brien Posey: Hello, greetings, and welcome. I’m Brien Posey. In this video, I want to show you how to use PowerShell to navigate the Windows file system.
Now the interesting thing about using PowerShell for file system navigation is that there are two different ways to do it. The reason why there are two different ways has to do with the history of Windows. Long before Microsoft ever created Windows, there was another Microsoft operating system called DOS, or Disk Operating System. Now, DOS was a very primitive operating system, and it was entirely command-line based. As you can imagine, there were commands that existed way back then for navigating the file system. A lot of those commands still exist in
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