{"id":6361,"date":"2015-04-29T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-29T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2015\/04\/29\/powertip-find-powershell-profiles\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T10:29:43","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T17:29:43","slug":"powertip-find-powershell-profiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-find-powershell-profiles\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Find PowerShell Profiles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b style=\"font-size:12px\">Summary<\/b><span style=\"font-size:12px\">: Learn how to easily find 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 Question: You want to find the path to 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>$Profile<\/b>&nbsp;automatic variable, but pipe the output to the&nbsp;<b>Format-List<\/b>&nbsp;cmdlet and use <br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;the&nbsp;<b>&ndash;Force<\/b>&nbsp;parameter. Here is an example that uses the&nbsp;<b>FL<\/b>&nbsp;alias for&nbsp;<b>Format-List<\/b>):<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">$profile | fl * -Force<\/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 easily find Windows PowerShell profiles. &nbsp;How can I Question: You want to find the path to Windows PowerShell profiles? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;$Profile&nbsp;automatic variable, but pipe the output to the&nbsp;Format-List&nbsp;cmdlet and use &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;the&nbsp;&ndash;Force&nbsp;parameter. Here is an example that uses the&nbsp;FL&nbsp;alias for&nbsp;Format-List): $profile | fl * -Force<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[356,3,45],"class_list":["post-6361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Learn how to easily find Windows PowerShell profiles. &nbsp;How can I Question: You want to find the path to Windows PowerShell profiles? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;$Profile&nbsp;automatic variable, but pipe the output to the&nbsp;Format-List&nbsp;cmdlet and use &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;the&nbsp;&ndash;Force&nbsp;parameter. Here is an example that uses the&nbsp;FL&nbsp;alias for&nbsp;Format-List): $profile | fl * -Force<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6361","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=6361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6361\/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=6361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}