File Operations

Create

• Single file

  New-Item -Path . -Name "my_file.txt" -ItemType "file" -Value "lorem ipsum"
  

• Directory

  New-Item -Path ../ -Name "my_directory" -ItemType "directory"
  

  Omit -Name and use a relative path, e.g. path/to/my_new_dir instead for a quicker operation, result in a directory named my_new_dir.

Delete

TBA

Copy

Robocopy

TBA

File Info

No native equivalent to Linux file.

File Content

• With Powershell

Get-Content file.txt

• With Command Prompt (pipe into MORE for scrolling)

TYPE file.txt | MORE