PowerShell: navigate directory

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🟢 TIP: Command names and parameter names are case-insensitive.

Change Dir

cd

(alias of Set-Location)

Change dir.

# go up one dir
cd ..

# go to home dir
cd

for dir name abbreviations, see PowerShell: Path Expansion

List Dir Content

dir

(alias of Get-ChildItem)

List dir content.

Go to Previous Dir

popd

(alias of Pop-Location)

Go to a dir last pushed by pushd.

pushd

(alias of Push-Location)

Push current dir path to a stack. Can go back to it by popd.

PowerShell. Directories and operations

List Dirs

Create, Copy, Delete, Dir