What is the benefit of using Join-Path to create a file path instead of just doing something like the following?
$Folder\$FileName
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You don't need to check for whether \ exists in either string already – Mathias R. Jessen Aug 25 '16 at 20:55
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Actually, direcory separators may be different in different locales. – Wiktor Stribiżew Aug 25 '16 at 20:55
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Might be analogous to http://stackoverflow.com/questions/32070934/what-is-the-advantage-of-using-path-combine-over-concatenating-strings-with (not sure). – Wiktor Stribiżew Aug 25 '16 at 21:01
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@WiktorStribiżew 0x5c is the separator but it might look different depending on the code page. `[char]0x5c` in PowerShell for the curious one... – notjustme Aug 25 '16 at 21:13
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Join-Path benefits:
- Uses the path-separator defined for the provider on which it's running
- Supports more than just filesystems (Certificates, registry, etc)
- Accepts multiple items to join.
- Accepts credentials
- Can resolve the result to a full path if it's relative
- Accepts arguments from the pipeline without a
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2One more for you, now that PowerShell is multi-platform, it joins in an appropriate manner for the operating system. – Chris Dent Aug 26 '16 at 06:41