Normalized file path comparison in Powershell

Question

Say I have the following two paths (both are valid, say):

$p1 = "D:\folder1\"
$p2 = "D:\Folder1"

I want to compare these two paths for equality. I am expecting both paths to be the same. I tried both the commands below:

• (Resolve-Path $p1) -eq (Resolve-Path $p2)
• (Get-Item $p1) -eq (Get-Item $p2)

None returned $True because the backslash was not normalized. Now I know I can do some regex magic and make it work but all I am looking for is an in-built solution for comparing file paths.

Answer 1

join-path "C:\Windows" ""
join-path "C:\Windows\" ""

Both return "C:\Windows\" since join-path normalizes them.