{"id":6681,"date":"2015-04-13T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-13T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2015\/04\/13\/powertip-use-powershell-to-find-file-or-folder\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T10:29:54","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T17:29:54","slug":"powertip-use-powershell-to-find-file-or-folder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-use-powershell-to-find-file-or-folder\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Use PowerShell to Find File or Folder"},"content":{"rendered":"

Summary<\/b>: Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to find a file or a folder.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Hey, How can I use Windows PowerShell to determine if a variable contains a path that leads to a file or folder?<\/p>\n

\"Hey, Use the Test-Path<\/b> cmdlet to test the path stored in the variable, and then specify the PathType<\/b> parameter,
           for example:<\/p>\n

PS C:\\> $fso = "c:\\fso"<\/p>\n

PS C:\\> $file = "C:\\fso\\backup.ps1"<\/p>\n

PS C:\\> Test-Path $fso -PathType leaf<\/p>\n

False<\/p>\n

PS C:\\> Test-Path $file -PathType leaf<\/p>\n

True<\/p>\n

\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Summary: Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to find a file or a folder.  How can I use Windows PowerShell to determine if a variable contains a path that leads to a file or folder?  Use the Test-Path cmdlet to test the path stored in the variable, and then specify the PathType parameter,           for example: […]<\/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":[51,356,3,4,45],"class_list":["post-6681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-getting-started","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-scripting-techniques","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"

Summary: Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to find a file or a folder.  How can I use Windows PowerShell to determine if a variable contains a path that leads to a file or folder?  Use the Test-Path cmdlet to test the path stored in the variable, and then specify the PathType parameter,           for example: […]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6681","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=6681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6681\/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=6681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}