Creating a file in PowerShell:
echo $null hello.txt
# create an empty file
echo "Hey" hello1.txt
# create a file with some text
cat filename
and type filename
shows the output of a file.
Get-ChildItem | Format-List
lists the files and folders. You can also use gci | fl
if you don't want to type the full command.
Get-ChildItem | Format-List *
lists a very detailed output.
Get-ChildItem | Format-Wide
lists the files and folders.
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You can format the output in so many ways. Get-ChildItem | Out-GridView
gives you so many options to filter your dataset.
mv
is more of a Linux way to do that also works in PowerShell. mv
is an alias for Move-Item
cmdlet. Similarly, there are other commands such as cp
, rm
and more...
Similarly, we can remove a file or a directory using the command rm
. Please note that to remove more than one item you need to specify a comma rm .\hello\, .\hello2\
.
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