Confused with -Include parameter of the Get-ChildItem cmdlet

Question

From documentation:

-Include

Retrieves only the specified items. The value of this parameter qualifies the Path parameter. Enter a pa

Answer 1

Tacking on to JaredPar's answer, in order to do pattern matching with Get-ChildItem, you can use common shell wildcards.

For example:

get-childitem "c:\test\t?st.txt"

where the "?" is a wildcard matching any one character or

get-childitem "c:\test\*.txt"

which will match any file name ending in ".txt".

This should get you the "simpler" behavior you were looking for.