Vista - Override FileSystem Provider's Treatment of Tilde

Is there some way to override how the filesystem provider treats the
tilde (~) character? I would like to change the path that ~ resolves
to. I thought that maybe it corresponded to the $home constant, but it
does not.

Tom G.

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The ~ is resolved by providers to their home location. Each provider can
have its own home location which you can view like this:

PS>get-psprovider | ft Name, Home

Name Home
---- ----
Alias
Environment
FileSystem C:\Documents and
Settings\mosoto
Function
Registry
Variable
Certificate


PS>

To change the provider home location just do:

PS>$provider = get-psprovider filesystem # or another provider name
PS>$provider.Home
C:\Documents and Settings\mosoto
PS>$provider.Home = 'c:\'
PS>cd ~; get-location

Path
----
C:\


PS>




"Tom G." <thomglow@lycos.com> wrote in message
news:%23rzclJlNHHA.4916@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> Is there some way to override how the filesystem provider treats the
> tilde (~) character? I would like to change the path that ~ resolves
> to. I thought that maybe it corresponded to the $home constant, but it
> does not.
>
> Tom G.
>
> --
>

Marcel J. Ortiz [MSFT] wrote:

> The ~ is resolved by providers to their home location. Each provider
> can have its own home location which you can view like this:
>
> PS>get-psprovider | ft Name, Home
>
> Name Home
> ---- ----
> Alias
> Environment
> FileSystem
> C:\Documents and Settings\mosoto Function
> Registry
> Variable
> Certificate
>
>
> PS>
>
> To change the provider home location just do:
>
> PS>$provider = get-psprovider filesystem # or another provider name
> PS>$provider.Home
> C:\Documents and Settings\mosoto
> PS>$provider.Home = 'c:\'
> PS>cd ~; get-location
>
> Path
> ----
> C:\
>
>
> PS>
>
That is a great explanation and works great. Thank you very much.

Tom G.




>
>
>
> "Tom G." <thomglow@lycos.com> wrote in message
> news:%23rzclJlNHHA.4916@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> > Is there some way to override how the filesystem provider treats the
> > tilde (~) character? I would like to change the path that ~ resolves
> > to. I thought that maybe it corresponded to the $home constant, but
> > it does not.
> >
> > Tom G.
> >
> > --