How can I run a powershell script in a for loop? - powershell

Question

I have been tasked to sort home video and pictures for my family. The scripts that I have work fine but I have to manually run them against each directory. How can I run my script against all child-items that are only at 1 Depth?
My current crude scripts are as follows:
$current_dir = Split-Path -Path $pwd -Leaf
$new_path = "H:\sorted\$current_dir\pictures"
Get-ChildItem -R . -Include ('*.jpg', '*.jpeg', '*.png') | Move-Item -Destination (New-Item -Force -Path "$new_path" -Type Directory)
$current_dir = Split-Path -Path $pwd -Leaf
$new_path = "H:\sorted\$current_dir\videos"
Get-ChildItem -R . -Include ('*.mp4', '*.mkv', '*.3pg','*.flv', '*.mov', '*.gif') | Move-Item -Destination (New-Item -Force -Path "$new_path" -Type Directory)
Example file tree
E:.
├───April9383
├───April98765
│ └───carson
├───Cathy
├───Cathy(1)
├───Charlie
│ ├───Photos
│ └───Videos
├───daleville
I want the end structure to look like Charlie does in the example. How can I run both of these with a loop from E: ?
I have tried
$sub_dir = $(Get-ChildItem . -Depth 1)
foreach ($sub in $sub_dir) {
picture-sort.ps1
}
but this took the name of the folder that all of the example files were stored in and not that of "April9383" etc
SOLVED:
I ended up going with #Santiago's response but edited a bit as it wasn't working exactly how I needed it.
I took this and ran with it to end up with
$base = "E:\sorted"
$current_dir = $pwd
# get the folders 1 level deep and enumerate
Get-ChildItem . -Depth 0 -Directory | ForEach-Object {
# join the destination with this folder's Name
$path = Join-Path $base -ChildPath $_.Name
$pic_path = "$path\pictures"
$vid_path = "$path\videos"
#source dirs
$stripped_dest_path = Split-Path -Path $path -Leaf
$src_path = Join-Path $current_dir $stripped_dest_path
#Print statement
Write-Output "Copying pictures from $src_path to $pic_path"
# get and move all pictures
Get-ChildItem -R $src_path -Include ('*.jpg', '*.jpeg', '*.png') |
Copy-Item -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue -Destination (New-Item -Force -Path "$pic_path" -Type Directory)
#Print statement
Write-Output "Copying videos from $src_path to $vid_path"
# get and move all videos
Get-ChildItem -R $src_path -Include ('*.mp4', '*.mkv', '*.3pg','*.flv', '*.mov', '*.gif', '*.avi') |
Copy-Item -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue -Destination (New-Item -Force -Path "$vid_path" -Type Directory)
Write-Output "END OF LOOP"
}

Answer 1

You're almost there, just need to put all your logic inside the loop:
$base = "H:\sorted"
# get the folders 1 level deep and enumerate
Get-ChildItem . -Depth 1 -Directory | ForEach-Object {
# join the destination with this folder's Name
$path = Join-Path $base -ChildPath $_.Name
# get and move all pictures
$_ | Get-ChildItem -Recurse -Include '*.jpg', '*.jpeg', '*.png' |
Move-Item -Destination (New-Item -Path (Join-Path $path -ChildPath 'Pictures') -Type Directory -Force)
# get and move all videos
$_ | Get-ChildItem -Recurse -Include '*.mp4', '*.mkv', '*.3pg','*.flv', '*.mov', '*.gif' |
Move-Item -Destination (New-Item -Path (Join-Path $path -ChildPath 'videos') -Type Directory -Force)
}

Answer 2

I ended up going with #Santiago's response but edited a bit as it wasn't working exactly how I needed it.
I took this and ran with it to end up with
$base = "E:\sorted"
$current_dir = $pwd
# get the folders 1 level deep and enumerate
Get-ChildItem . -Depth 0 -Directory | ForEach-Object {
# join the destination with this folder's Name
$path = Join-Path $base -ChildPath $_.Name
$pic_path = "$path\pictures"
$vid_path = "$path\videos"
#source dirs
$stripped_dest_path = Split-Path -Path $path -Leaf
$src_path = Join-Path $current_dir $stripped_dest_path
#Print statement
Write-Output "Copying pictures from $src_path to $pic_path"
# get and move all pictures
Get-ChildItem -R $src_path -Include ('*.jpg', '*.jpeg', '*.png') |
Copy-Item -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue -Destination (New-Item -Force -Path "$pic_path" -Type Directory)
#Print statement
Write-Output "Copying videos from $src_path to $vid_path"
# get and move all videos
Get-ChildItem -R $src_path -Include ('*.mp4', '*.mkv', '*.3pg','*.flv', '*.mov', '*.gif', '*.avi') |
Copy-Item -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue -Destination (New-Item -Force -Path "$vid_path" -Type Directory)
Write-Output "END OF LOOP"
}

Answer 3

This should work:
$PictureFiles = #('*.jpg', '*.png')
$VideoFiles = #('*.mkv', '*.mp4')
$MyFiles = Get-ChildItem H:\sorted -Recurse -File -Include #($PictureFiles + $VideoFiles) -Depth 1
foreach ($File in $MyFiles) {
#Videos
if ($File.Extension -in ($VideoFiles -replace '\*')) {
mkdir ($File.DirectoryName + "\Videos\") -Force
Move-Item -Path $File.FullName -Destination ($File.DirectoryName + "\Videos\" + $File.Name) -Force
}
#Pictures
if ($File.Extension -in ($PictureFiles -replace '\*')) {
mkdir ($File.DirectoryName + "\Pictures\") -Force
Move-Item -Path $File.FullName -Destination ($File.DirectoryName + "\Pictures\" + $File.Name) -Force
}
}