Snippets

While a file exists or not

# while a file exists
While (Test-Path C:\Temp\File_I_Want_Gone.txt -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue) {
  # Do something here while the file exists
}

# while a file doesn't exists
While (!(Test-Path C:\Temp\File_I_Want_Gone.txt -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue)) {
  # Do something here while the file doesn't exists
}

# while a file exists
While (Test-Path C:\Temp\File_I_Want_Gone.txt -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue) {
  # try to delete the file, continue silently if we can't
  Remove-Item "C:\Temp\File_I_Want_Gone.txt" -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
  # print date each time just to give some sort of feedback on the console
  Get-Date
}