{"id":6761,"date":"2015-04-09T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-09T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2015\/04\/09\/powertip-use-powershell-to-verify-syntax-of-path\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T10:29:57","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T17:29:57","slug":"powertip-use-powershell-to-verify-syntax-of-path","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-use-powershell-to-verify-syntax-of-path\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Use PowerShell to Verify Syntax of Path"},"content":{"rendered":"

Summary<\/b>: Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to verify the syntax of a path.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Hey, How can I use Windows PowerShell to verify that a path that accepts user input is using the correct syntax?<\/p>\n

\"Hey, Use the –IsValid<\/b> parameter of the Test-Path<\/b> cmdlet, for example:<\/p>\n

PS C:\\> $a = "c:\\myfolder\\nonexistentfile.txt"<\/p>\n

PS C:\\> Test-Path $a -IsValid<\/p>\n

True<\/p>\n

PS C:\\> $b = "c:\\my()(*&^%\\afile.txt"<\/p>\n

PS C:\\> Test-Path $b -IsValid<\/p>\n

False<\/p>\n

Note<\/b>  This command verifies if the syntax is correct for the provider, but it does not verify if the file exists.<\/p>\n

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

Summary: Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to verify the syntax of a path.  How can I use Windows PowerShell to verify that a path that accepts user input is using the correct syntax?  Use the –IsValid parameter of the Test-Path cmdlet, for example: PS C:\\> $a = "c:\\myfolder\\nonexistentfile.txt" PS C:\\> Test-Path $a -IsValid True PS C:\\> $b = […]<\/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":[38,356,3,4,45],"class_list":["post-6761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-files","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-scripting-techniques","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"

Summary: Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to verify the syntax of a path.  How can I use Windows PowerShell to verify that a path that accepts user input is using the correct syntax?  Use the –IsValid parameter of the Test-Path cmdlet, for example: PS C:\\> $a = "c:\\myfolder\\nonexistentfile.txt" PS C:\\> Test-Path $a -IsValid True PS C:\\> $b = […]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6761","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=6761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6761\/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=6761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}