Creating symbolic links or junctions with New-Item doesn't work if target contains '[' or ']' #6232
Description
Steps to reproduce
- Type on an NTFS/ReFS file system:
New-Item -Path '[target]' -ItemType Directory
- Try creating a junction (or symbolic link, substitute with 'SymbolicLink' in the -ItemType parameter)
New-Item -Path '[source]' -Value '[target]' -ItemType Junction
Expected behavior
The junction should be created even if the target path contains square bracket characters
Actual behavior
An error message is resulted:
new-item : Cannot find path '[target]' because it does not exist.
At line:1 char:1
+ New-Item -Path '[source]' -Value '[target]' -Itemtype Junction
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : InvalidOperation: (:) [New-Item], PSInvalidOperationException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : InvalidOperation,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.NewItem Command
Note: the command can be made to work with double escapes, but it seems hacky.
new-item -path '[source]' -value "```[target```]" -Itemtype Junction
Environment data
Name Value
---- -----
PSVersion 6.0.1
PSEdition Core
GitCommitId v6.0.1
OS Microsoft Windows 6.1.7601 S
Platform Win32NT
PSCompatibleVersions {1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0...}
PSRemotingProtocolVersion 2.3
SerializationVersion 1.1.0.1
WSManStackVersion 3.0