Powershell Get-ChildItem -Filter operates differently to Where clause with same value

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The Filter of FileSystem provider rather uses CMD wildcards than PowerShell wildcards. CMD wildcards are funny and not intuitive in some edge cases, mostly historically. Here is an interesting explanation: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20071217-00/?p=24143

Another gotcha to be kept in mind: ls -Filter *.txt in fact gets files like *.txt* in PowerShell sense, i.e. files with extensions starting with txt. This may be unexpected and very unpleasant in some scenarios 🙂

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