I'm trying to write a few lines of code in powershell, to check if a file arrived to a specific folder. If the file is there, copy it to another folder. No action required if the file is not there. So far I have only the copying part:
cd C:\
Move /y "C:\myfolder\*.csv" "C:\MyDestinationFolder"
I can't find a simple code to check if the file is present.
Maybe you can use this:
$SourceFile = "C:\source\file.txt"
$Destination = "C:\destination\"
if(Test-Path -Path $SourceFile)
{
Copy-Item -Path $SourceFile -Destination $Destination
}
try this :
move-Item "C:\myfolder\*.csv" "C:\MyDestinationFolder" -Force -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
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After searching for a wile I need to post my question here:
I want to do a simple task:
copy-item -path "C:\Folder Copied" -destination "C:\Folder Copied_New" -recurse
Assuming the dir "Folder Copied_New" doenst exist in "C:", PS will create a folder, and copy the folder (and its content) "C:\Folder Copied" to "Folder Copied_New"
HOWEVER, if you execute the command a second time, the following happens:
Powershell created: "C:\Folder Copied_New\Folder Copied" (content "Test.txt" was also copied to this newly created folder...
The 3rd time you execute the command, it ll say that the folder already exists...
So my question:
After I run the command a 2nd time, PS should throw an error, that "Folder Copied_New". How do I do that?
I tried copying and renaming the new folder, using and NOT using "" in the paths, but nothing worked. I do think of using -Testpath, but I thought I ask the community for a simplier (BestPractice) approache.
Thanks in advance for reading and advising!
Well explained in another question but same issue
Not an answer but to long to write in comments.
Can you run following script and show us the output?
$root = "$($env:TEMP)\test"
$source = "$($root)\Logfiles"
$destination = "$($root)\Drawings\Logs"
# Verify folders don't exist yet
if (Test-Path $source) {Throw}
if (Test-Path $destination) {Throw}
# Set up
New-Item $source, $destination -ItemType Directory -Force | Out-Null # Create folders
New-Item "$($source)\testfile" -ItemType File -Force | Out-Null # Create a testfile
# Show files/folders before copy
Write-Output "Before copy"
Get-ChildItem $root -Recurse | select fullname
# Copy first time
Copy-Item -path $source -destination $destination -Recurse -ErrorAction Continue
Write-Output "After first time copy"
Get-ChildItem $root -Recurse | select fullname
# Copy second time
Copy-Item -path $source -destination $destination -Recurse -ErrorAction Continue
Write-Output "After second time copy"
Get-ChildItem $root -Recurse | select fullname
# Copy third time
Copy-Item -path $source -destination $destination -Recurse -ErrorAction Continue
Write-Output "After third time copy"
Get-ChildItem $root -Recurse | select fullname
# Clean up
Remove-Item $source, $destination -Force -Recurse | Out-Null
On my computer, I don't observe any abnormal behavior. The source folder get's copied to destination after the first time. The second run does not alter anything, neither does the third run.
That behavior is the default:
Let's say you want to copy and rename an item, so you are doing this:
Copy-Item -path source.txt -Destination destination.txt
You expect a file named destination.txt with the content of source.txt.
If you want to copy a file but without renaming it you do this:
Copy-Item -path source.txt -Destination C:\test
You expect the file source.txt to apear in C:\test. If C:\test didn't exist it will be created.
Now let's try to copy a folder while the destination does not exist.
Copy-Item -path C:\test -Destination D:\toast
The destination didn't exist so you created it by copying the source folder to the destination. The content of the destination will be the same as the source. The folder D:\toast is the same as C:\test but it got renamed in the process.
However if you provide a destination path where the source object (folder) is going to be located, it will be located in there.
Copy-Item -path C:\test -Destination D:\toast
D:\toast did exist from our previouse action so a copy of C:\test will be created in there: D:\toast\test
I have batch changed multiple files that all start with a prefix of a folder where I need them in.
The files are located on another location, like a folder on the desktop.
For example:
101AA0001.dat
101AA0002.dat
102AA0001.dat
102AA0002.dat
The destination folder will for example be:
C:\destfolder\101\ or C:\destfolder\102\
Files starting with 101 need to go in the 101 folder and the files starting with 102 go to folder 102.
I can find some scripts that creates the folder based on the filename. But in this situation the folders already exist. I also know for sure the files don't exist, so I don't have to overwrite files or something.
I guess it is easy for the people that know PowerShell very well, but I don't know how to do this. Can someone please help me? This can save me a lot of time.
I have tried to move the files with the following rule:
Move-Item -Path C:\Users\Username\Desktop\test*.dat -Destination C:\Users\Username\Desktop\test2\ -include "*.dat"
But it copies the whole folder except for the files.
You can do that quite easily with code like below:
$sourceFolder = Join-Path -Path $env:USERPROFILE -ChildPath 'Desktop'
$destination = 'C:\destfolder'
Get-ChildItem -Path $sourceFolder -File -Filter '*.dat' | ForEach-Object {
$targetFolder = Join-Path -Path $destination -ChildPath $_.Name.Substring(0, 3)
# if the target folder does not exist yet, create it
if (!(Test-Path -Path $targetFolder -PathType Container)) {
$null = New-Item -Path $targetFolder -ItemType Directory
}
$_ | Move-Item -Destination $targetFolder -WhatIf
}
The -WhatIf switch shows what would happen in the console without actually performing the move. If you are satisfied with what is output, remove that switch.
This will take all files that end in ".dat" from the $Source folder into a subfolder inside the $DestinationRoot named for the first three characters of the ".dat" file.
$Source = "C:\Users\Username\Desktop"
$DestinationRoot = "C:\Users\Username\Desktop\test2"
$Filelist = Get-ChildItem -Path $Source -Filter "*.dat" -File
foreach ($File in $Filelist){ $DestinationFolder = $File.Name.Substring(0,3)
$FinalPath = "$DestinationRoot\$DestinationFolder"
Move-Item -Path $File.Fullname -Destination $FinalPath -Whatif }
Remove the -Whatif when you're ready to run it for real.
This doesn't handle folder creation and should error out if the file already exists in the target location so it won't accidentally overwrite anything.
I am trying to copy a folder from the local computer to a remote server. It works but if the destination folder already exists it is creating a duplicate folder inside it.
copy-item -Path C:\test -Destination \\server\F$\testpassed -recurse -Force
To copy only the files from within C:\test to the \\server\F$\testpassed folder you need to use the following command:
Copy-Item -Path C:\test\* -Destination \\server\F$\testpassed -Recurse
\* is a wildcard for anything within the folder, and will cause Copy-Item to copy anything within the folder to the Destination. You could also use *.txt to only copy txt files if you wanted only a specific file type to be copied.
EDIT:
I would test for the presence of $TARGETDIR and then create it if needed. This way you only have a single copy command.
$TargetDir = "\\server\F$\testpassed"
$SourceDir = "C:\test"
if(!(Test-Path -Path $TARGETDIR)) {New-Item -Path $TARGETDIR -ItemType Directory}
Copy-Item -Path "$SourceDir\*" -Destination $TARGETDIR -Recurse
Using source path in below way will solve your issue
Copy-Item -Path C:\test*
Try
$Source = Get-childitem C:\test -Recurse
copy-item -Path $Source.FullName -Destination C:\temp -recurse -Force
Use GC to stop getting the folder as well as the contents.
We got hit by virus, it changed all common file extension to .kmybamf (.txt >> .txt.kmybamf ) and if I delete .kmybamf , the file got damaged.....
So I made a list of all files that got damaged. now I'm trying to overwrite them by previous version. Anyone knows how to do it in Powershell?
I can do it in cmd similar to this
subst X: \localhost\D$\#GMT-2011.09.20-06.00.04_Data
robocopy Z: D:\Folder\ /E /COPYALL
But I want to do it in one shot in Powershell, It has to be a "if .kmybamf found, then restore previous version." and powershell seems like has no such cmdlet for restoring previous version of files or folders.
$fileList = Get-Content -Path "\\localhost\D$\#GMT-2011.09.20-06.00.04_Data"
$destinationFolder = "D:\Folder\"
foreach ($file in $fileList)
{
Copy-Item -Path $file -Destination $destinationFolder -Force
}
This will also work but I find it less readable
Get-Content -Path "\\localhost\D$\#GMT-2011.09.20-06.00.04_Data" | ForEach-Object { Copy-Item -Path $_ -Destination "D:\Folder" -Force }
Get-Content is for reading the text from the files, to read the files from a folder you would have to use Get-Childitem
I'm trying to copy a file to a new location, maintaining directory structure.
$source = "c:\some\path\to\a\file.txt"
destination = "c:\a\more\different\path\to\the\file.txt"
Copy-Item $source $destination -Force -Recurse
But I get a DirectoryNotFoundException:
Copy-Item : Could not find a part of the path 'c:\a\more\different\path\to\the\file.txt'
The -recurse option only creates a destination folder structure if the source is a directory. When the source is a file, Copy-Item expects the destination to be a file or directory that already exists. Here are a couple ways you can work around that.
Option 1: Copy directories instead of files
$source = "c:\some\path\to\a\dir"; $destination = "c:\a\different\dir"
# No -force is required here, -recurse alone will do
Copy-Item $source $destination -Recurse
Option 2: 'Touch' the file first and then overwrite it
$source = "c:\some\path\to\a\file.txt"; $destination = "c:\a\different\file.txt"
# Create the folder structure and empty destination file, similar to
# the Unix 'touch' command
New-Item -ItemType File -Path $destination -Force
Copy-Item $source $destination -Force
Alternatively, with PS3.0 onwards, you can simply use the New-Item to create the target folder directly, without having to create a "dummy" file, e.g. ...
New-Item -Type dir \\target\1\2\3\4\5
...will happily create the \\target\1\2\3\4\5 structure irrespective of how much of it already exists.
Here's a oneliner to do this. Split-Path retrieves the parent folder, New-Item creates it and then Copy-Item copies the file. Please note that the destination file will have the same filename as the source file. Also, this won't work if you need to copy multiple files to the same folder as with the second file you'll get An item with the specified name <destination direcory name> already exists error.
Copy-Item $source -Destination (New-Item -Path (Split-Path -Path $destination) -Type Directory)
I had files in a single folder in Windows 7 that I wanted to rename and copy to nonexistent folders.
I used the following PowerShell script, which defines a Copy-New-Item function as a wrapper for the Test-Item, New-Item, and Copy-Item cmdlets:
function Copy-New-Item {
$SourceFilePath = $args[0]
$DestinationFilePath = $args[1]
If (-not (Test-Path $DestinationFilePath)) {
New-Item -ItemType File -Path $DestinationFilePath -Force
}
Copy-Item -Path $SourceFilePath -Destination $DestinationFilePath
}
Copy-New-Item schema_mml3_mathml3_rnc schema\mml3\mathml3.rnc
# More of the same...
Copy-New-Item schema_svg11_svg_animation_rnc schema\svg11\svg-animation.rnc
# More of the same...
Copy-New-Item schema_html5_assertions_sch schema\html5\assertions.sch
# More of the same...
(Note that, in this case, the source file names have no file extension.)
If the destination file path does not exist, the function creates an empty file in that path, forcing the creation of any nonexistent directories in the file path. (If Copy-Item can do all that by itself, I could not see how to do it from the documentation.)
It is coming late, but as I stumbled upon this question looking for a solution to a similar problem, the cleanest one I found elsewhere is using robocopy instead of Copy-Item. I needed to copy the whole file structure together with the files, that's easily achieved via
robocopy "sourcefolder" "destinationfolder" "file.txt" /s
Detail about robocopy: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/robocopy
None of the current answers worked for me to fix the Could not find a part of the path error raised by Copy-Item. After some research and testing, I discovered this error can be raised if the Destination path goes over the 260 character Windows path length limit.
What I mean by that is: if you supply a path to the Destination argument of Copy-Item and any of the files you are copying would exceed the 260 character limit when copied to the Destination folder, Copy-Item will raise the Could not find a part of the path error.
The fix is to shorten your Destination path, or to shorten/flatten the folder structure in the source directory that you are trying to copy.
May be Helpfull:
$source = 'c:\some\path\to\a\file.txt'
$dest = 'c:\a\more\different\path\to\the\file.txt'
$dest_dir = 'c:\a\more\different\path\to\the\'
[System.IO.Directory]::CreateDirectory($dest_dir);
if(-not [System.IO.File]::Exists($dest))
{
[System.IO.File]::Copy($source,$dest);
}
I have been digging around and found a lot of solutions to this issue, all being some alteration not just a straight copy-item command. Grant it some of these questions predate PS 3.0 so the answers are not wrong but using powershell 3.0 I was finally able to accomplish this using the -Container switch for copy-item.
Copy-Item $from $to -Recurse -Container
this was the test i ran, no errors and destination folder represented the same folder structure.
New-Item -ItemType dir -Name test_copy
New-Item -ItemType dir -Name test_copy\folder1
New-Item -ItemType file -Name test_copy\folder1\test.txt
#NOTE: with no \ at the end of the destination the file is created in the root of the destination, does not create the folder1 container
#Copy-Item D:\tmp\test_copy\* D:\tmp\test_copy2 -Recurse -Container
#if the destination does not exists this created the matching folder structure and file with no errors
Copy-Item D:\tmp\test_copy\* D:\tmp\test_copy2\ -Recurse -Container