{"id":4767,"date":"2012-10-25T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-25T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2012\/10\/25\/powertip-use-the-force-switch-in-powershell\/"},"modified":"2012-10-25T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-25T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-use-the-force-switch-in-powershell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-use-the-force-switch-in-powershell\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Use the Force Switch in PowerShell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Summary<\/b>: Many times Windows PowerShell cmdlets display additional information when using the&nbsp;<b>Force<\/b>&nbsp;switch.<\/p>\n<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Question\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/q-for-powertip.jpg\" \/>&nbsp;<\/strong>How can I display hidden and system files when using Windows PowerShell?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Answer\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/a-for-powertip.jpg\" \/>&nbsp;Use the&nbsp;<b>Get-Item<\/b>&nbsp;or&nbsp;<b>Get-ChildItem<\/b>&nbsp;cmdlet and use the&nbsp;<b>Force<\/b><i>&nbsp;<\/i>switch&mdash;this works with other cmdlets as well.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\"> <\/span>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Get-ChildItem -force<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Many times Windows PowerShell cmdlets display additional information when using the&nbsp;Force&nbsp;switch. &nbsp;How can I display hidden and system files when using Windows PowerShell? &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Get-Item&nbsp;or&nbsp;Get-ChildItem&nbsp;cmdlet and use the&nbsp;Force&nbsp;switch&mdash;this works with other cmdlets as well. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Get-ChildItem -force<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[356,3,45],"class_list":["post-4767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Many times Windows PowerShell cmdlets display additional information when using the&nbsp;Force&nbsp;switch. &nbsp;How can I display hidden and system files when using Windows PowerShell? &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Get-Item&nbsp;or&nbsp;Get-ChildItem&nbsp;cmdlet and use the&nbsp;Force&nbsp;switch&mdash;this works with other cmdlets as well. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Get-ChildItem -force<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}