Check if a file exists or not in Windows PowerShell?

Question

I have this script which compares files in two areas of the disk and copies the latest file over the one with the older modified date.

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Answer 1

Just to offer the alternative to the Test-Path cmdlet (since nobody mentioned it):

[System.IO.File]::Exists($path)

Does (almost) the same thing as

Test-Path $path -PathType Leaf

except no support for wildcard characters