Check if a file exists or not in Windows PowerShell?

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

Use Test-Path:

if (!(Test-Path $exactadminfile) -and !(Test-Path $userfile)) {
  Write-Warning "$userFile absent from both locations"
}

Placing the above code in your ForEach loop should do what you want

You want to use Test-Path:

Test-Path <path to file> -PathType Leaf

The standard way to see if a file exists is with the Test-Path cmdlet.

Test-Path -path $filename

You can use the Test-Path cmd-let. So something like...

if(!(Test-Path [oldLocation]) -and !(Test-Path [newLocation]))
{
    Write-Host "$file doesn't exist in both locations."
}

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