René's URL Explorer Experiment

{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Creating symbolic links or junctions with New-Item doesn't work if target contains '[' or ']'","articleBody":"Steps to reproduce\r\n------------------\r\n\r\n1. Type on an NTFS/ReFS file system:\r\n```\r\nNew-Item -Path '[target]' -ItemType Directory\r\n```\r\n2. Try creating a junction (or symbolic link, substitute with 'SymbolicLink' in the -ItemType parameter)\r\n```\r\nNew-Item -Path '[source]' -Value '[target]' -ItemType Junction\r\n```\r\n\r\nExpected behavior\r\n-----------------\r\nThe junction should be created even if the target path contains square bracket characters\r\n\r\nActual behavior\r\n---------------\r\n An error message is resulted:\r\n```\r\nnew-item : Cannot find path '[target]' because it does not exist.\r\nAt line:1 char:1\r\n+ New-Item -Path '[source]' -Value '[target]' -Itemtype Junction\r\n+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\r\n+ CategoryInfo          : InvalidOperation: (:) [New-Item], PSInvalidOperationException\r\n+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : InvalidOperation,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.NewItem Command\r\n```\r\nNote: the command **can** be made to work with double escapes, but it seems hacky.\r\n```\r\nnew-item -path '[source]' -value \"```[target```]\" -Itemtype Junction\r\n```\r\n\r\nEnvironment data\r\n----------------\r\n\r\n\u003c!-- provide the output of $PSVersionTable --\u003e\r\n\r\n```\r\nName                           Value\r\n----                           -----\r\nPSVersion                      6.0.1\r\nPSEdition                      Core\r\nGitCommitId                    v6.0.1\r\nOS                             Microsoft Windows 6.1.7601 S\r\nPlatform                       Win32NT\r\nPSCompatibleVersions           {1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0...}\r\nPSRemotingProtocolVersion      2.3\r\nSerializationVersion           1.1.0.1\r\nWSManStackVersion              3.0\r\n```\r\n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/lkydev","@type":"Person","name":"lkydev"},"datePublished":"2018-02-24T04:29:16.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":27},"url":"https://github.com/6232/PowerShell/issues/6232"}