Try the following commands. I would be interesed if you can confirm
the same inconsistencies in behaviour that I show below.
There are three issues that I see:
1. Why does providing the provider name (or not) in the command affect
what is displayed in the prompt?
2. Why is the behaviour of the FileSystem provider and Registry
provider different? Is the inconsistency a bug?
3. Why does set-location C: and set-location FileSystem::C: take you
to different folders? Bug?
PS C:\Documents and Settings\Andrew Watt> set-location HKLM:
PS HKLM:\> set-location C:
So far so good. But when you provide the name of the provider it
appears in the prompt.
PS C:\Documents and Settings\Andrew Watt> set-location Registry::HKLM
If you omit the colon with the FileSystem provider you can an error.
PS Microsoft.PowerShell.Core\Registry::HKLM> set-location
FileSystem::C
Set-Location : Cannot find path 'C' because it does not exist.
At line:1 char:13
+ set-location <<<< FileSystem::C
But it works with the colon in place.
PS Microsoft.PowerShell.Core\Registry::HKLM> set-location
FileSystem::C:
Providing the colon with the Registry provider produces an error (the
FileSystem equivalent worked).
PS Microsoft.PowerShell.Core\FileSystem::C:\> set-location
Registry::HKLM:
Set-Location : Cannot find path 'HKLM:' because it does not exist.
At line:1 char:13
+ set-location <<<< Registry::HKLM:
For convenience here are the commands with no interpolated comment:
PS C:\Documents and Settings\Andrew Watt> set-location HKLM:
PS HKLM:\> set-location C:
PS C:\Documents and Settings\Andrew Watt> set-location Registry::HKLM
PS Microsoft.PowerShell.Core\Registry::HKLM> set-location
FileSystem::C
Set-Location : Cannot find path 'C' because it does not exist.
At line:1 char:13
+ set-location <<<< FileSystem::C
PS Microsoft.PowerShell.Core\Registry::HKLM> set-location
FileSystem::C:
PS Microsoft.PowerShell.Core\FileSystem::C:\> set-location
Registry::HKLM:
Set-Location : Cannot find path 'HKLM:' because it does not exist.
At line:1 char:13
+ set-location <<<< Registry::HKLM:
PS Microsoft.PowerShell.Core\FileSystem::C:\> (get-childitem
function
rompt).definition
'PS ' + $(Get-Location) + $(if ($nestedpromptlevel -ge 1) { '>>' }) +
'> '
PS Microsoft.PowerShell.Core\FileSystem::C:\>
For information here also is my prompt() function. It's the default.
PS Microsoft.PowerShell.Core\FileSystem::C:\> (get-childitem
function
rompt).definition
'PS ' + $(Get-Location) + $(if ($nestedpromptlevel -ge 1) { '>>' }) +
'> '
PS Microsoft.PowerShell.Core\FileSystem::C:\>
Can others confirm the behaviour? Do you see the differences as
desirable?
Andrew Watt MVP