Powershell: resolve path that might not exist?

Question

I\'m trying to process a list of files that may or may not be up to date and may or may not yet exist. In doing so, I need to resolve the full path of an item, even though

Answer 1

I ended up with this code in my case. I needed to create a file later in the the script, so this code presumes you have write access to the target folder.

$File = ".\newdir\newfile.txt"
If (Test-Path $File) {
    $Resolved = (Resolve-Path $File).Path
} else {
    New-Item $File -ItemType File | Out-Null
    $Resolved = (Resolve-Path $File).Path
    Remove-Item $File
}

I also enclosed New-Item in try..catch block, but that goes out of this question.