Powershell Bad Code #5: Search files with square brackets not working

By powershellgu | July 5, 2015

Question: Why this code doesn’t display files with with square brackets?

Not working

Working

Answer :

# Answer:
Get-ChildItem -LiteralPath 'C:\demo\[file].txt'

# Explanation:
-LiteralPath : this parameter looks for the path exactly as it was typed (even if ii includes a reserved character).

# Answer:

Get-ChildItem -LiteralPath 'C:\demo\[file].txt'

# Explanation:

-LiteralPath : this parameter looks for the path exactly as it was typed (even if ii includes a reserved character).

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