You certainly know the commands cd and Set-Location. It stands for change directory. I hope you also know the commands cd \ and cd .. But what about cd ~ ?

Type cd ~ to switch to your home directory.

cd ~

Set-Location ~

Instead of ~ , the environmental variable USERPROFILE can be accessed.

cd $env:userprofile

Or use $home.

cd $home

Well. Next I tried to use it for copying. Ant it works.

Copy-Item -Path C:\temp\dummyfile1.txt -Destination ~\Documents

Nice.