Getting the current script directory in PowerShell June 4, 2008
Posted by reddogaw in PowerShell, Tips.Tags: $pwd, Get-ScriptDirectory, PowerShell, Powershell Profile, Script Directory
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One thing to remember when developing PowerShell scripts is that your current value in $PWD is the process’ current directory not the one where the script was stored.
In my desire to break out a few functions into a common file in order to load them “dot-sourced” (so that the functions become global) I realised I needed help!
In comes a new function from the PowerShell Team Blog. It’s going straight into my PowerShell Profile: Get-ScriptDirectory. It does exactly as the name says, it gets the current directory that script is executed from.
<snip>
- function Get-ScriptDirectory
- {
- $Invocation = (Get-Variable MyInvocation -Scope 1).Value
- Split-Path $Invocation.MyCommand.Path
- }
</snip>
So that now from my script that requires the Common-Functions.ps1 (located in the same directory) I can call:
- # Load up our common functions
- $commons = Join-Path (Get-ScriptDirectory) “Common-Functions.ps1″;
- . $commons;
Love,
Reddog.
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