Is there a command in Powershell to jump to the next folder? My problem is that Powershell should search a folder with several subfolders for a particular file and when it is found moves it.
Example:
C:\Test\1\error\test.data
This should be moved to
C:\Test\1\data
and then I go back with cd. . cd. .
C:\Test\
Here I would need a command that jumg automatically in
C:\Test\2\error
And here’s my problem, how do I automatically get to the next folder without specifying it. So that I insert the command into a loop?
Thanks for the help :)
Use Get-ChildItem to enumerate the directories nested under C:\Test then use a loop to go through them one by one:
$targetFolders = Get-ChildItem -Path C:\test -Directory
foreach($targetFolder in $targetFolders){
# Switch to target folder
Push-Location -LiteralPath $targetFolder.FullName
# Check if file is there
if(Test-Path error\test.data){
# If so, move it
Move-Item error\test.data -Destination data
}
# Leave directory again
Pop-Location
}
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back with another request to try and make my life a little easier. The problem: one of the programs I use deposits BMPs (yes, bitmaps, this is an ancient app, and no, I can't configure it not to make BMPs) where I don't need them. I've got a BAT file that can sweep a folder and remove them, but what I'd really like to do is put a copy of said BAT file in each folder where it leaves them, and then every time I run a backup cycle, have it search for those BAT files, and wherever it finds one, run it. (I'd also need to know how to tell it "look in the same folder you're in"--I think I can do that by something like $searchfolder = "." but please correct me if I'm wrong)
I'm guessing this is a Get-Childitem and ForEach, but I've taken a few stabs at it and it won't work. Does anyone have an idea how to go about it?
This is what I've got so far for the parent script to find all instances of "Clear_BMPs.bat":
Get-ChildItem $sourceDir -Include Clear_BMPs.bat -Recurse | ForEach-Object { call "Clear_BMPs.bat" }
And this is what I've got in the child script, to get rid of the BMPs themselves (the filename for it is "Clear_BMPs.bat":
$searchfile = "*.bmp"
$targetdir = ".\"
Get-ChildItem $targetdir -Include $searchfile | foreach{ "Removing file $($_.FullName)"; Remove-Item -force $_}
I'm still trying to get the Clear_BMPs.bat files to work properly but in my vision it will only search the root of the folder it's in, and not recurse through subdirectories.
Since you're calling from PowerShell, there's no reason to involve batch files, given that the code is under your control.
Indeed, what you show as the content of a Clear_BMPs.bat batch file is PowerShell code, which means you need to store it in a .ps1 file, not a .bat file.
Therefore, your recursive invocation that executes all .ps1 files should look like this:
# Find all 'Clear_BMPs.ps1' scripts in the subdir. tree of $sourceDir
# and invoke them.
Get-ChildItem -Recurse -LiteralPath $sourceDir -Filter Clear_BMPs.ps1 |
ForEach-Object { & $_.FullName }
And the Clear_BMPs.ps1 files in the various directories should contain:
# Remove all *.bmp files from the same dir. in which this .ps1 script is located.
Remove-Item -Path "$PSScriptRoot/*.bmp"
Note the use of the automatic $PSScriptRoot variable, which refers to the directory in which the enclosing .ps1 file is located.
I know this has been asked a million times, but I can't seem to find anything that works for me. I don't know if there is a permissions issue or what, but I am trying to move files from one server to another using a PowerShell script in the task scheduler and it worked for about a week before it stopped working. There are no errors in the task scheduler, and I'm not well versed in PowerShell at all, I'm just trying to get something quick and simple for our CMS manager to move her files from the website to a folder on another server.
$ORG = "E:\folders\uploads\" ## enter current source folder
$DEST= "\\server-folder-structure\uploads\" ## enter your destination folder
foreach ($ORG in gci $DEST -include *.doc,*.docx,*.pdf,*.png,*.gif,*.jpg,*.jpeg,*.html,*.htm -recurse)
{
Move-Item -path $ORG -destination $DEST ## Move the files to the destination folder
}
I tried this too, in hopes it would work, but still no files are being moved.
Get-ChildItem E:\folder-structure\uploads\* -Include *.doc,*.docx,*.pdf,*.png,*.gif,*.jpg,*.jpeg,*.html,*.htm -Recurse |ForEach-Object { Move-Item $_.FullName \\server-folder-structure\uploads\ }
Am I doing something wrong? Are there permissions to folders that I need to set that I don't know about? Is PowerShell just not the best way to do this? Thanks in advance.
I believe you're making this harder than it should be (with respect to PowerShell being new to you). You don't need a loop on any of your examples if you want to pipe directly to Move-Item:
$ORG = "E:\folders\uploads\" ## enter current source folder
$DEST = "\\server-folder-structure\uploads\" ## enter your destination folder
$filterFor = "*.doc","*.docx","*.pdf","*.png","*.gif","*.jpg","*.jpeg","*.html","*.htm"
Get-ChildItem $ORG -Include $filterFor -File -Recurse |
Move-Item -Destination $DEST -WhatIf
As for what you tried, and as Mathias pointed out, you would be searching your $DEST location in which the files wouldn't exist as they would only be in $ORG; given that that's the actual source folder.
This would also overwrite you $ORG variable with the current item in your iteration in: foreach ($ORG in gci ..){ ... }.
Meaning, your Move-Item would be invalid.
I'm trying to move png images in subfolders to a subfolder in the folder they are in.
Main folder is called "stuff", images are in variously named subfolders in the "stuff" main folder, and each of these subfolders have a folder name "Oneshot" in them, I'm trying to move these images that are in M:/Stuff/FolderExample/ to M:/Stuff/FolderExample/Oneshot/.
Current code I am using
Get-ChildItem -Path C:\Users\a\Desktop\stuff\*.png -Recurse | Move-Item -Destination "$($_.FullName)\Oneshot\"
How can I make this work? I'm just trying to learn powershell so I can automate this process as I otherwise would need to repeat the process manually for thousands of times
Use a scriptblock ({...}) as the argument to -Destination - this will allow you to access the current pipeline item as $_ during parameter binding:
Get-ChildItem -Path C:\Users\a\Desktop\stuff\*.png -Recurse |Where-Object Directory -notlike *\OneShot | Move-Item -Destination {"$($_.Directory.FullName)\Oneshot\"}
The Where-Object command in the middle of the pipeline will ensure we don't attempt to move pictures already in one of the OneShot folders.
Powershell is not the best idea to move files. The main reason is that you run into problems in case the path becomes too long >256 characters. I would use robocopy for such tasks. It is part of every current windows version.
robocopy M:/Stuff/FolderExample/ M:/Stuff/FolderExample/Oneshot/ /MIR
Please keep in mind that this code will also delete everything that is in M:/Stuff/FolderExample/Oneshot/ and not in M:/Stuff/FolderExample/. So use /MIR with caution.
You could still invoke robocopy in an ps1 file and wrap other powershell code around it e.g. for variables.
I have created a PowerShell script to move my video files from separate folders on my hard drive to a central folder. The script looks like this:
#location of starting directory
$_sourcePath ="C:\Movies\ -recurse"
#location where files will be copied to
$_destinationPath = "C:\New\"
#Array of extension that need to move from source path
$_FileType= #("*.*mp4")
When the scrip runs, nothing happens. I get no errors, but I also don't get an of the *.mp4 files moved.
what is wrong with this script?
Try this
$_sourcePath ="C:\Movies\"
$_destinationPath = "C:\New";
$_FileType= #("*.*mp4")
Get-ChildItem -recurse ($_sourcePath) -include ($_FileType) | move-Item -Destination ($_destinationPath)`
I want to copy a group of folders which have various files inside them from one place to a single folder elsewhere. I want to bind said folder group to a variable.
param(
$folders=('../folder1','../folder2')
)
Copy-Item -Path $folders -Destination '../folder3' -Recurse -Force;
This works, however, inside folder3, folder1's contents are spilled out, while folder2's contents are placed in a folder of the same name just like intended.
I need them both to be copied intact, if I switch their places then folder2 gets the same treatment. It's like the script does not read the first folder in line in same way as the others. Am I missing something?
EDIT:
Managed to find a work-around by running additional command to create a folder inside "folder3" named same as first in line folder before copying. Script then places the files inside that folder correctly. Still rather messy, I wonder if it's a bug.
Use a loop
foreach($folder in $folders){
Copy-Item -Path $folder -Destination '../folder3'-Recurse -Force
}