Votes from Connect: 4

Original Date Submitted: 9/14/2014 4:22:48 PM

Description:
Contact Information
Handle: sba
Site Name: PowerShell
Feedback ID: 971502

Frequency: Always Happens
Regression: Yes, this happens in previous released versions

Problem Description:
When 'Get-ChildItem -Recurse -LiteralPath' is run against a directory whose name contains square brackets, no output is produced.

Take a directory with the following contents:

PS> cmd /c dir /s d:\tmp\dir[1]
Volume in drive D is DATA
Volume Serial Number is 0454-9DBF

Directory of d:\tmp\dir[1]

2014-09-14 09:23 <DIR> .
2014-09-14 09:23 <DIR> ..
2014-09-14 09:23 <DIR> subdir

           0 File(s)              0 bytes

Directory of d:\tmp\dir[1]\subdir

2014-09-14 09:23 <DIR> .
2014-09-14 09:23 <DIR> ..
2014-09-14 09:23 <DIR> ssdir

           0 File(s)              0 bytes

Directory of d:\tmp\dir[1]\subdir\ssdir

2014-09-14 09:23 <DIR> .
2014-09-14 09:23 <DIR> ..
2014-09-14 09:23 12 file.txt

           1 File(s)             12 bytes


 Total Files Listed:

           1 File(s)             12 bytes

           8 Dir(s)  463,074,471,936 bytes free

This doesn't produce any output:

PS> gci -Recurse -LiteralPath 'd:/tmp/dir[1]'

Whereas this works:

PS> gci -Recurse -Path 'd:/tmp/dir[1]'

Directory: D:\tmp\dir[1]

Mode LastWriteTime Length Name

d---- 2014-09-14 09:23 subdir

Directory: D:\tmp\dir[1]\subdir

Mode LastWriteTime Length Name

d---- 2014-09-14 09:23 ssdir

Directory: D:\tmp\dir[1]\subdir\ssdir

Mode LastWriteTime Length Name

-a--- 2014-09-14 09:23 12 file.txt

This is discussed a.o. at https://connect.microsoft.com/PowerShell/feedback/CreateFeedbackForm.aspx?FeedbackFormConfigurationID=434&FeedbackType=1

P.S. There might already be a bug filed for that same issue, but it's currently not possible to search for existing bugs on Connect (browsing is available, but there are more than 2,400 bugs opened...)

Product Studio item created by Connect Synchronizer due to creation of feedback ID 971502 (http://connect.microsoft.com/PowerShell/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=971502).

Repro Steps:
gci -Recurse -LiteralPath 'd:/tmp/dir[1]'

no output is produced

Expected Results:
The contents of the directory d:/tmp/dir[1] should be returned

Internal BugId: 11000