title: Powershell Get-childitem returns "Cannot find path" for UNC value from XML
body: <p>I know this is a simple thing, but for the life of me I can't seem to make it work.  We have a script that loads values from an XML config file formatted as such:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;configuration&gt;
  &lt;global&gt;
      &lt;rootBuildPath&gt;\\devint1\d`$\Builds\&lt;/rootBuildPath&gt;
  &lt;/global&gt;
  &lt;/configuration&gt;
  
  #Load the xml file
  $xmlfile = [xml](get-content "C:\project\config.xml")
  # get the root path
  $rootBuildPath = $xmlfile.configuration.global.rootBuildPath
  
  $currentRelease = Get-ChildItem $rootBuildPath -Exclude "Latest" | Sort -Descending LastWriteTime | select -First 1
  
  # do some stuff with the result, etc.
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Now what happens is get-childitem throws a </p>
  
  <pre><code>Get-ChildItem : Cannot find path '\\devint1\d`$\Builds' because it does not exist.
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>If I run the command in the shell it works but for some reason if I try and use the value from the XML file it fails.  I've tried escaping the backtick and removing the backtick to no avail.</p>
  
  <p>I can't use a share to make this happen.</p>
  
  <p>Thoughts?</p>