Get-SPOSite find existing sites - powershell

Question

This is the code that will check if any of the sites listed already exists.
$sites = get-content -Path C:\code\CheckSPSites.txt
foreach($site in $sites){
$url = (Get-SPOSite -Filter{url -like $site} -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue) -ne $null
if ($url -eq $true){
Write-Host "$site already created" -BackgroundColor Red
}else{
Write-Host "$site not created" -BackgroundColor Green
}
}
It doesn't find the sites when I use the variable $site to filter the search.
I've tried putting the variable in quotes (Get-SPOSite -Filter{url -like "$site") and it doesn't work either.
Any help would be appreciated.
Many thanks

Answer 1

Thank you Theo and UBK. Posting your suggestion as an answer to help other community members.
You can use -Identity parameter along with the site collection URL to find out the existence.
For example: Get-SPOSite -Identity https://contoso.sharepoint.com
# Verify if site of same name already exists in SharePoint Online
$siteAlreadyExists = Get-SPOSite -Identity $url
# If it does, stop the script
if ($null -ne $siteAlreadyExists) {
Write-Host "Site already exists" -ForegroundColor Red
...
}
If your code fails when site is not present, then you can try following try-catch block:
try {
$siteAlreadyExists = Get-SPOSite -Identity $url
if ($null -ne $siteAlreadyExists) {
Write-Host "Site already exists" -ForegroundColor Red
}
}
catch {
Write-Host "Site already exists" -ForegroundColor Red
}
You can refer to Number of SPO sites causing issue with Get-SPOSite