Pop-Location
Changes the current location to the location most recently pushed onto the stack.
Syntax
Pop-Location
[-PassThru]
[-StackName <String>]
[<CommonParameters>]
Description
The Pop-Location
cmdlet changes the current location to the location most recently pushed onto the
stack by using the Push-Location
cmdlet. You can pop a location from the default stack or from a
stack that you create by using a Push-Location
command.
Examples
Example 1: Change to most recent location
PS C:\> Pop-Location
This command changes your location to the location most recently added to the current stack.
Example 2: Change to most recent location in a named stack
PS C:\> Pop-Location -StackName "Stack2"
This command changes your location to the location most recently added to the Stack2 location stack.
For more information about location stacks, see the Notes.
Example 3: Move between locations for different providers
PS C:\> pushd HKLM:\Software\Microsoft\PowerShell
PS HKLM:\Software\Microsoft\PowerShell> pushd Cert:\LocalMachine\TrustedPublisher
PS cert:\LocalMachine\TrustedPublisher> popd
PS HKLM:\Software\Microsoft\PowerShell> popd
PS C:\>
These commands use the Push-Location
and Pop-Location
cmdlets to move between locations
supported by different PowerShell providers. The commands use the pushd
alias for Push-Location
and the popd
alias for Pop-Location
.
The first command pushes the current file system location onto the stack and moves to the HKLM drive supported by the PowerShell Registry provider.
The second command pushes the registry location onto the stack and moves to a location supported by the PowerShell certificate provider.
The last two commands pop those locations off the stack. The first popd
command returns to the
Registry drive, and the second command returns to the file system drive.
Parameters
-PassThru
Passes an object that represents the location to the pipeline. By default, this cmdlet does not generate any output.
Type: | SwitchParameter |
Position: | Named |
Default value: | None |
Required: | False |
Accept pipeline input: | False |
Accept wildcard characters: | False |
-StackName
Specifies the location stack from which the location is popped. Enter a location stack name.
Without this parameter, Pop-Location
pops a location from the current location stack. By
default, the current location stack is the unnamed default location stack that PowerShell
creates. To make a location stack the current location stack, use the StackName parameter
of the Set-Location
cmdlet. For more information about location stacks, see the Notes.
Pop-Location
cannot pop a location from the unnamed default stack unless it is the current
location stack.
Type: | String |
Position: | Named |
Default value: | None |
Required: | False |
Accept pipeline input: | True |
Accept wildcard characters: | False |
Inputs
None
You can't pipe objects to this cmdlet.
Outputs
None
By default, this cmdlet returns no output.
When you use the PassThru parameter, this cmdlet returns a PathInfo object representing the current path after the cmdlet's operation.
Notes
PowerShell includes the following aliases for Pop-Location
:
- All Platforms:
popd
PowerShell supports multiple runspaces per process. Each runspace has its own current directory.
This is not the same as [System.Environment]::CurrentDirectory
. This behavior can be an issue
when calling .NET APIs or running native applications without providing explicit directory paths.
Even if the location cmdlets did set the process-wide current directory, you can't depend on it because another runspace might change it at any time. You should use the location cmdlets to perform path-based operations using the current working directory specific to the current runspace.
A stack is a last-in, first-out list in which only the most recently added item can be accessed. You add items to a stack in the order that you use them, and then retrieve them for use in the reverse order. PowerShell lets you store provider locations in location stacks.
PowerShell creates an unnamed default location stack and you can create multiple named location
stacks. If you do not specify a stack name, PowerShell uses the current location stack. By
default, the unnamed default location is the current location stack, but you can use the
Set-Location
cmdlet to change the current location stack.
To manage location stacks, use the PowerShell *-Location
cmdlets, as follows:
To add a location to a location stack, use the
Push-Location
cmdlet.To get a location from a location stack, use the
Pop-Location
cmdlet.To display the locations in the current location stack, use the Stack parameter of the
Get-Location
cmdlet.To display the locations in a named location stack, use the StackName parameter of the
Get-Location
cmdlet.To create a new location stack, use the StackName parameter of the
Push-Location
cmdlet. If you specify a stack that does not exist,Push-Location
creates the stack.To make a location stack the current location stack, use the StackName parameter of the
Set-Location
cmdlet.
The unnamed default location stack is fully accessible only when it is the current location stack.
If you make a named location stack the current location stack, you can no longer use the
Push-Location
or Pop-Location
cmdlets to add or get items from the default stack or use the
Get-Location
cmdlet to display the locations in the unnamed stack. To make the unnamed stack
the current stack, use the StackName parameter of the Set-Location
cmdlet with a value of
$Null
or an empty string (""
).
You can also refer to Pop-Location
by its built-in alias, popd
. For more information, see
about_Aliases.
Pop-Location
is designed to work with the data exposed by any provider. To list the
providers available in your session, type Get-PSProvider
. For more information, see
about_Providers.
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