Shell shortcuts to folders in Windows

Question

I'm learning Vagrant and Virtualbox, Now to add a line to my hosts file in a (windows)

echo "test" >> c:/windows/system32/drivers/etc/hosts

But i'm wondering if i can make a Shortcut to c:/windows/system32/drivers/etc/hosts that i can use in any shell from everywhere.

Answer 1

You might create an environment variable:

[System.Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable('Youralias','c:/windows/system32/drivers/etc/hosts','Machine)

and then access it using

$env:YourAlias

from PowerShell... If you want to access it from CMD

%Youralias%

should work.