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PowerShell cmdLet Get-Item

Mode

Among others get-item prints a Mode column:

PS C:\Users\Rene> get-item foo.txt
   …
Mode                 LastWriteTime         Length Name
----                 -------------         ------ ----
-ar---        23.11.2021     21:32          11669 foo.txt

The value of mode consists of up to six characters or dashes. A dash indicates that the corresponding item does not have an attribute while the character indicates the presence of the attribute.

The characters have following meaning, from left to right:

`d`	Directory
`a`	Archive
`r`	Read-only
`h`	Hidden
`s`	System
`l`	Reparse Point

These attributes correspond to a subset of the attributes listed in the System.IO.FileAttributes enumeration.

Returned types

The .NET type that is returned by get-item depends on the thing that get-item gets.

Item	Class
File system directory	`System.IO.DirectoryInfo`
File System file	TODO
Registry key	`Microsoft.Win32.RegistryKey`
…	TODO

Getting an item's parent item

If the item is a directory:

(get-item $env:temp).parent
(get-item $env:temp).parent.fullName

If the item is a file:

(get-item $profile).directory
(get-item $profile).directory.fullkame

Fatal error: Uncaught PDOException: SQLSTATE[HY000]: General error: 8 attempt to write a readonly database in /home/httpd/vhosts/renenyffenegger.ch/php/web-request-database.php:78 Stack trace: #0 /home/httpd/vhosts/renenyffenegger.ch/php/web-request-database.php(78): PDOStatement->execute(Array) #1 /home/httpd/vhosts/renenyffenegger.ch/php/web-request-database.php(30): insert_webrequest_('/notes/Windows/...', 1743601829, '18.191.44.70', 'Mozilla/5.0 App...', NULL) #2 /home/httpd/vhosts/renenyffenegger.ch/httpsdocs/notes/Windows/PowerShell/command-inventory/noun/item/get/index(100): insert_webrequest() #3 {main} thrown in /home/httpd/vhosts/renenyffenegger.ch/php/web-request-database.php on line 78

PowerShell cmdLet Get-Item

Mode

Returned types

Getting an item's parent item

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