Power Shell script does not return result of Library

Question

I have written a below PowerShell script to get items of a library for SharePoint 2013

$spData = $web.Lists["EmployeeDocument"] -as [Microsoft.SharePoint.SPDocumentLibrary]
$fieldsItems = $spData.Items

$result = $fieldsItems | select Title,FolderCategory

$filterItem =  $fieldsItems | ? {$_.FolderCategory -eq "Help"}

This script does not return the result and filter of the Library.

Where as, below script return 3 items count:

$spData.Items.Count

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

try to fetch the list as below:

web.lists.GetByTitle("TestList")