ItemCmdletProvider.ExpandPath(String) Method

Definition

Namespace:: System.Management.Automation.Provider

Assembly:: System.Management.Automation.dll

Package:: Microsoft.PowerShell.5.1.ReferenceAssemblies v1.0.0

Package:: Microsoft.WSMan.Runtime v7.0.0

Package:: Microsoft.WSMan.Runtime v6.1.0

Package:: Microsoft.WSMan.Runtime v6.2.0

Expand a provider path that contains wildcards to a list of provider paths that the path represents.Only called for providers that declare the ExpandWildcards capability.

protected:
 virtual cli::array <System::String ^> ^ ExpandPath(System::String ^ path);

protected:
 virtual Platform::Array <Platform::String ^> ^ ExpandPath(Platform::String ^ path);

 virtual std::Array <std::wstring const &> ExpandPath(std::wstring const & path);

protected virtual string[] ExpandPath (string path);

abstract member ExpandPath : string -> string[]
override this.ExpandPath : string -> string[]

Protected Overridable Function ExpandPath (path As String) As String()

Parameters

path: String

The path to expand. Expansion must be consistent with the wildcarding rules of PowerShell's WildcardPattern class.

Returns

String[]

A list of provider paths that this path expands to. They must all exist.

Applies to