Get the full path of ChildItem in PowerShell

Get the full path of ChildItem in PowerShell

In PowerShell, you can use the FullName property of the System.IO.FileInfo or System.IO.DirectoryInfo class to get the full path of a ChildItem. This property returns the full path of a file or directory as a string.

To use the FullName property, you will first need to create an instance of the FileInfo or DirectoryInfo class for the ChildItem you want to get the full path of. This can be done using the Get-Item cmdlet, which takes the path of the ChildItem as an input and returns a FileInfo or DirectoryInfo object.

Once you have a FileInfo or DirectoryInfo object for the ChildItem, you can use the FullName property to get the full path of the item.

For example, the following PowerShell code gets the full path of a file named "myFile.txt" in the "C:\myFiles" directory:

$fileInfo = Get-Item "C:\myFiles\myFile.txt"
$fullPath = $fileInfo.FullName

This code uses the Get-Item cmdlet to create a FileInfo object for the "myFile.txt" file, and then uses the FullName property to get the full path of the file and store it in the $fullPath variable.

It is important to note that the FullName property only returns the full path of the item. It does not include the name of the item itself.

To get the full path and the name of the item, you can use the FullPath property instead. This property returns the full path and the name of the item as a single string.

For example, the following PowerShell code gets the full path and name of a directory named "myDir" in the "C:\myFiles" directory:

$dirInfo = Get-Item "C:\myFiles\myDir"
$fullPath = $dirInfo.FullPath

Conclusion

In PowerShell, you can use the FullName property of the System.IO.FileInfo or System.IO.DirectoryInfo class to get the full path of a ChildItem. This property returns the full path of a file or directory as a string.