PowerShell v2 Function CreateFSOIfNotExists

I get sick of repeating code. In that spirit this function gives me one line to create a new file (or folder) instead of four (or more) quickly:

function Create-FSOIfNotExists

{

       param(

             [ValidateNotNullOrEmpty()]

             $path,

             [ValidateSet(Directory,File)]

             $itemtype

       )

      

       if(-not(Test-Path -Path $path))

       {

             New-Item -Path $path -ItemType $itemtype |

             Out-Null;

       }

}

All sorts of Verbose output could (probably should) be added to this to make it chattier, but, I just needed a quick utility function and this does the trick.

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