is there an 'exists-item' function?

Hi,

I'm just doing my first steps into Powershell and just stumbled over a point
where I want to know if an item with a given name exists.

I managed to write a function:

function exist-item($s)
{
$local:a = (get-item $s -ea silentlyContinue)
return (($a -ne $null) -and ($a -ne ''))
}

but this already existed in all command interpreters (even DOS) I used before.
What about PS?

Regards
Rainer

Try something like

Test-Path "C:\scripts\monad\teched.zip"

returns true if exists and false if doesn't

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Richard Siddaway

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"Rainer Prem" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm just doing my first steps into Powershell and just stumbled over a point
> where I want to know if an item with a given name exists.
>
> I managed to write a function:
>
> function exist-item($s)
> {
> $local:a = (get-item $s -ea silentlyContinue)
> return (($a -ne $null) -and ($a -ne ''))
> }
>
> but this already existed in all command interpreters (even DOS) I used before.
> What about PS?
>
> Regards
> Rainer