PowerShell Can Browse a Network Share

by Buddy Lindsey on April 10, 2008

If you follow me on twitter then you probably know that I like Anime. If you don’t follow me, you should, then to let you know. I like Anime. Recently, a friend in #alt.net channel on freenode. Was helping me with a script to do some specific renaming to strip out extra crap from anime I download.

Anyway, I have a network share on my anime folder so I can access it from anywhere on my network and watch. Well last night without thinking I just opened up PowerShell CD’d to the network share and ran the script, since I have full control set on the share. After the shows were renamed I closed it and went about finishing Bamboo Blade.

Later I realized I browsed a network share in PowerShell. That is SOOOOO freaking cool that you can do that.  Here is an image proving it:

powershellNetworkShare

Basically, I am starting in my “My Documents” folder on my computer and CD’ing to the remote computer and it works. Then I do a pwd for the path, and viola it works.

This is cool to me and might allow some cool scripts to be run for copying local files to remote servers with a simple click.

When I get the script a little more refined I’ll go ahead and post it up with a blog post.

Here is a silverlight video of it in action.

Update: unfortuneatly in server move I lost the video. :( sorry.

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