PowerShell Remove-Item not waiting

Question

If have this piece of code

if(Test-Path -Path $OUT) 
{ 
    Remove-Item $OUT -Recurse 
}
New-Item -ItemType directory -Path $OUT

Sometimes

Answer 1

For completeness' sake: You can also use the safe and fast .NET methods:

if ([System.IO.Directory]::Exists($OUT)) {
    [System.IO.Directory]::Delete($OUT, $true)
}
[System.IO.Directory]::CreateDirectory($OUT)

Note:

Depending on where you get the value of $OUT you might want to convert it to a full path first to make sure the .NET methods remove the correct directory (see @mklement0`s comment):

$fullPath = Convert-Path $OUT