Remove-PSDrive - PowerShell command help and examples

Removes a Windows PowerShell drive from its location. (Remove-PSDrive)

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 NAME
 
    Remove-PSDrive 

 SYNOPSIS
 
    Removes a Windows PowerShell drive from its location. 

 SYNTAX
 
    Remove-PSDrive [-LiteralName] <string[]> [-Force] [-PSProvider <string[]>] [-Scope <string>] [-Confirm] [-WhatIf] [-UseTransaction] [<CommonParameters>] 

    Remove-PSDrive [-Name] <string[]> [-Force] [-PSProvider <string[]>] [-Scope <string>] [-Confirm] [-WhatIf] [-UseTransaction] [<CommonParameters>] 

 DESCRIPTION
 
    The Remove-PSDrive cmdlet deletes Windows PowerShell drives that you created by using New-PSDrive. 

    Remove-PSDrive cannot delete Windows drives or mapped network drives created by using other methods and it cannot delete the current working drive. 

 PARAMETERS
 
    -Force [<SwitchParameter>] 
        Allows the cmdlet to remove the current Windows PowerShell drive. 

        Required?                    false 
        Position?                    named 
        Default value 
        Accept pipeline input?       false 
        Accept wildcard characters?  false 

    -LiteralName <string[]> 
        Specifies the name of the Windows PowerShell drive. 

        The value of LiteralName is used exactly as typed. No characters are interpreted as wildcards. If the name includes escape characters, enclose it in single quotation marks ('). Single quotation marks instruct Windows PowerShell not to interpret any characters as escape sequences. 

        Required?                    true 
        Position?                    1 
        Default value 
        Accept pipeline input?       true (ByPropertyName) 
        Accept wildcard characters?  false 

    -Name <string[]> 
        Specifies the names of the Windows PowerShell drives to remove. Do not type a colon (:) after the drive name. 

        Required?                    true 
        Position?                    1 
        Default value 
        Accept pipeline input?       true (ByPropertyName) 
        Accept wildcard characters?  false 

    -PSProvider <string[]> 
        Removes all of the Windows PowerShell drives associated with the specified Windows PowerShell provider. 

        Required?                    false 
        Position?                    named 
        Default value 
        Accept pipeline input?       true (ByPropertyName) 
        Accept wildcard characters?  false 

    -Scope <string> 
        Accepts an index that identifies the scope from which the drive is being removed. 

        Required?                    false 
        Position?                    named 
        Default value 
        Accept pipeline input?       true (ByPropertyName) 
        Accept wildcard characters?  false 

    -Confirm [<SwitchParameter>] 
        Prompts you for confirmation before executing the command. 

        Required?                    false 
        Position?                    named 
        Default value 
        Accept pipeline input?       false 
        Accept wildcard characters?  false 

    -WhatIf [<SwitchParameter>] 
        Describes what would happen if you executed the command without actually executing the command. 

        Required?                    false 
        Position?                    named 
        Default value 
        Accept pipeline input?       false 
        Accept wildcard characters?  false 

    -UseTransaction [<SwitchParameter>] 
        Includes the command in the active transaction. This parameter is valid only when a transaction is in progress. For more information, see about_Transactions. 

        Required?                    false 
        Position?                    named 
        Default value 
        Accept pipeline input?       false 
        Accept wildcard characters?  false 

    <CommonParameters> 
        This cmdlet supports the common parameters: Verbose, Debug, 
        ErrorAction, ErrorVariable, WarningAction, WarningVariable, 
        OutBuffer and OutVariable. For more information, type, 
        "get-help about_commonparameters". 

 INPUTS
 
    System.Management.Automation.PSDriveInfo 
        You can pipe a drive object to Remove-PSDrive. 

 OUTPUTS
 
    None 
        This cmdlet does not return any output. 

 NOTES
 

        The Remove-PSDrive cmdlet 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. 

 Examples
    
EXAMPLE 1
 

    C:\PS>remove-psdrive -name smp 

     Description
 
    ----------- 
    This command removes a Windows PowerShell drive named "smp". 

RELATED LINKS 
    Online version: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=113376 
    about_Providers 
    Get-PSDrive 
    New-PSDrive 

C:\Windows>powershell get-help Get-PSDrive -full 

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