Wildcard character in registry paths results in "Illegal characters in path." #4704
Description
In Win10 (10.0.16275.1000) and beta6, I am unable to use powershell to modify registry keys that are named "*".
Steps to reproduce
Remove-Item "HKCU:\Software\Classes\*\shell\"
# or try with escape
Remove-Item "HKCU:\Software\Classes\``*\shell\"Expected behavior
Registry key is removed.
Actual behavior
Remove-Item : Illegal characters in path.
Parameter name: path
At line:1 char:1
+ Remove-Item "HKCU:\Software\Classes\``*\shell\"
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [Remove-Item], ArgumentException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : System.ArgumentException,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.RemoveItemCommand
Environment data
> $PSVersionTable
Name Value
---- -----
PSVersion 6.0.0-beta
PSEdition Core
GitCommitId v6.0.0-beta.6
OS Microsoft Windows 10.0.16275
Platform Win32NT
PSCompatibleVersions {1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0...}
PSRemotingProtocolVersion 2.3
SerializationVersion 1.1.0.1
WSManStackVersion 3.0