A better way to check if a path exists or not in PowerShell

Question

I just don\'t like the syntax of:

if (Test-Path $path) { ... }

and

if (-not (Test-Path $path)) { ... }
if (!(Test-Path $pa         


        

Answer 1

This is my powershell newbie way of doing this

if ((Test-Path ".\Desktop\checkfile.txt") -ne "True") {
    Write-Host "Damn it"
} else {
    Write-Host "Yay"
}