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

PowerShell cmdLet Get-Item

Mode

Returned types

Getting an item's parent item

See also