Vista - bug in join-path when the current directory is used

1) Is there a FAQ either on this forum or connect.microsoft on what format to
use when submitting bugs?

2) Has someone previously posted a problem with how join-path handles the
current directory?


To give an example assume that the current directory of drive d: is Users


c: cd d:
d:\users

c: dir d:

d--- bob
....


Passing the following parameters to join-path does not return the expected
results. It should be dumping out the contents of my folder since its a child
of the Users directory.



c:>join-path d: bob | dir



The reason is join-path blindly adds the path-seperator when concatenating
the two parameters.

join-path should be checking whether the first parameter ends in a colon and
if so concatenate the parameter without the path-seperator.


thx
bob

1. You can submit a new bug or suggestion on Mcrosoft connect http://connect.microsoft.com
2. Can't remember
3. Mabe this can help - http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/arc...join-path.aspx

HTH

Shay
http://scriptolog.blogspot.com

A work around:
join-path (get-item d bob | dir

....with alias
join-path (gi d bob | dir

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Kiron

Thanks Kiron I didn't think of this work around. The one which I used when I
wrote a batchfile function to handle

embedded spaces
more than one backslash as part of the drive letter
and of course this issue was to do the check whether the drive was passed in
only

Adding a . to the drive will also work. c:.\


But all of these require one to parse the paths and take corrective action
which is what join-path is supposed to do.



"Kiron" wrote:

> Adding a . to the drive will also work. c:.\

That's a better (shorter) work around, you don't need the '\' after the dot
though

join-path d:. bob | dir

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Kiron