{"id":72012,"date":"2015-07-21T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-21T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2015\/07\/21\/powertip-find-name-and-location-of-powershell-profiles\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T09:46:54","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T16:46:54","slug":"powertip-find-name-and-location-of-powershell-profiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-find-name-and-location-of-powershell-profiles\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Find Name and Location of PowerShell Profiles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b style=\"font-size:12px\">Summary<\/b><span style=\"font-size:12px\">: Learn how to find the name and location of various Windows PowerShell profiles.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/q-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Question\" \/>&nbsp;How can I find the name and location of various Windows PowerShell profiles?<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/a-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Answer\" \/>&nbsp;Use the&nbsp;<b>$profile<\/b>&nbsp;automatic variable to see what profiles are available for your particular Windows PowerShell<br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;host (for example, the console host or the ISE). To find only the name and the location of the profiles, <br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;you need to return only the properties from the object and then look for names that&nbsp; begin with A or C, <br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;for example:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:90px\">(($PROFILE).psobject.Properties).where({$_.name -match &#039;a|c&#039;}) | select name, value<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\" alt=\" \" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Learn how to find the name and location of various Windows PowerShell profiles. &nbsp;How can I find the name and location of various Windows PowerShell profiles? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;$profile&nbsp;automatic variable to see what profiles are available for your particular Windows PowerShell&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;host (for example, the console host or the ISE). To [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[356,144,3,4,45],"class_list":["post-72012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-powertip","tag-profiles","tag-scripting-guy","tag-scripting-techniques","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Learn how to find the name and location of various Windows PowerShell profiles. &nbsp;How can I find the name and location of various Windows PowerShell profiles? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;$profile&nbsp;automatic variable to see what profiles are available for your particular Windows PowerShell&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;host (for example, the console host or the ISE). To [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}