{"id":85,"date":"2015-01-05T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-05T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2015\/01\/05\/powertip-list-folders-containing-powershell-modules\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T10:36:09","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T17:36:09","slug":"powertip-list-folders-containing-powershell-modules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-list-folders-containing-powershell-modules\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: List Folders Containing PowerShell Modules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b style=\"font-size:12px\">Summary<\/b><span style=\"font-size:12px\">: Learn how to list all folders that contain Windows PowerShell modules.<\/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 see a list of all folders that contain Windows PowerShell modules?<\/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>PSModulePath<\/b>&nbsp;environmental variable, and split it to form paths to the modules. Then use the&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<b>Get-ChildItem<\/b>&nbsp;cmdlet (<b>dir<\/b>&nbsp;is an alias) and specify only directories while using a wildcard character for a filter. <br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Here is an example:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">Dir ($env:PSModulePath -split &quot;;&quot;) -Filter * -directory<\/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<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Learn how to list all folders that contain Windows PowerShell modules. &nbsp;How can I see a list of all folders that contain Windows PowerShell modules? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;PSModulePath&nbsp;environmental variable, and split it to form paths to the modules. Then use the&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Get-ChildItem&nbsp;cmdlet (dir&nbsp;is an alias) and specify only directories while using [&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":[356,3,45],"class_list":["post-85","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Learn how to list all folders that contain Windows PowerShell modules. &nbsp;How can I see a list of all folders that contain Windows PowerShell modules? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;PSModulePath&nbsp;environmental variable, and split it to form paths to the modules. Then use the&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Get-ChildItem&nbsp;cmdlet (dir&nbsp;is an alias) and specify only directories while using [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85","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=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/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=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}