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Check if a file exists and show the properties of the file txt" if (Test-Path $fileToCheck -PathType leaf) { $file = Get-Item $fileToCheck $file. FullName $file. LastAccessTime $file. Length $file.
Get-ChildItem cmdlet in PowerShell is used to get items in one or more specified locations. Using Get-ChildItem, you can find files. You can easily find files by name, and location, search file for string, or find file locations using a match pattern.
PowerShell Create Directory If Not Exists using Test-Path If a directory exists then it will return $True. If a path or directory is missing or doesn't exist, it will return $False. Using PowerShell New-Item cmdlet, it will create directory if not exists using Test-Path.
To check if the file is empty using PowerShell, we can use the string method called IsNullorWhiteSpace(). This method provides result true if the file is empty or only contains the white spaces otherwise false. For example, We have a test2. txt text file which has whitespaces.
Just to offer the alternative to the Test-Path cmdlet (since nobody mentioned it):
[System.IO.File]::Exists($path)
Does (almost) the same thing as
Test-Path $path -PathType Leaf
except no support for wildcard characters
Use Test-Path:
if (!(Test-Path $exactadminfile) -and !(Test-Path $userfile)) {
Write-Warning "$userFile absent from both locations"
}
Placing the above code in your ForEach loop should do what you want
You want to use Test-Path:
Test-Path <path to file> -PathType Leaf
The standard way to see if a file exists is with the Test-Path cmdlet.
Test-Path -path $filename
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