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title: 'How to get and use your PowerShell Module Base.'
title: 'How to get your PowerShell Module Base root path'
date: 2022-03-21T09:14:41+01:00
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## 🖼️ Intro
This article explains with a practical example how to determine and use the current module base path:
This article explains with a practical example how to determine and use the current module base path.
Sometimes you want to use a basic config file for your module. This config file could be used to define basic
settings for your module. These module wide default settings should placed and shipped within your module.
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## 🔎 `Get-ConfigValue` helper function
Now you can use `$MyInvocation.MyCommand.Module.ModuleBase` with a helper function to parse the path to your config
file and return your stored default values:
Now you can use `$MyInvocation.MyCommand.Module.ModuleBase` with a helper function, to parse the path to your config
file, and return the stored default values:
```powershell
function Get-ConfigValue {
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## 💭 Final Thoughts
All you need to to is using the `Get-ConfigValue -FromKey '<example key>'` in your functions to get any value
defined in you config file.
defined in your config file.
As far as I know, that's the simplest way to get your module root and using it with a config file.