Can I somehow exclude a folder when I compress an archive like this?
$compress = Compress-Archive $DestinationPath $DestinationPath\ARCHIVE\archiv-$DateTime.zip -CompressionLevel Fastest
Now it always saves the whole folder structure of $destinationpath to the archive, but since the archive is in the same folder, it always gets zipped into a new archive, making the archive double in size every time I run the command.
Get all the files you want to compress, excluding the files and folders you don't want compressed and then pass that to the cmdlet
# target path
$path = "C:\temp"
# construct archive path
$DateTime = (Get-Date -Format "yyyyMMddHHmmss")
$destination = Join-Path $path "ARCHIVE\archive-$DateTime.zip"
# exclusion rules. Can use wild cards (*)
$exclude = #("_*.config","ARCHIVE","*.zip")
# get files to compress using exclusion filer
$files = Get-ChildItem -Path $path -Exclude $exclude
# compress
Compress-Archive -Path $files -DestinationPath $destination -CompressionLevel Fastest
you can use -update option of Compress-Archive. Select your subdirs with Get-ChildItem and Where
like it:
$YourDirToCompress="c:\temp"
$ZipFileResult="C:\temp10\result.zip"
$DirToExclude=#("test", "test1", "test2")
Get-ChildItem $YourDirToCompress -Directory |
where { $_.Name -notin $DirToExclude} |
Compress-Archive -DestinationPath $ZipFileResult -Update
I know this question is rather old, but wanted to post my solution here. This solution has worked for me and I hope it may help someone else having the same issue.
I took the ideas from the previous answers and developed them a bit.
So generally speaking what you need to do is to create two lists, one for the files in the root directory and another one for directories (excluding the directory you'd want to omit). Then you need to concatenate these two lists together and put them into -Path parameter of Compress-Archive cmdlet.
Voila! It will create a .zip archive with all files and directories we need, preserving the directory structure.
$files = Get-ChildItem -Path /RootDir -File
$directories = Get-ChildItem -Path /RootDir -Recurse -Directory -Exclude DirToExclude
Compress-Archive -Path $($files + $directories) -DestinationPath Archive.zip
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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.
UPD1 - I reworked my question to make it less vague
I'm new in Powershell and need someone advise.
I have a directories, which I need to zip, for example:
in C:\inetpub\wwwroot\STAGETEST\
App_Config
Resources
bin
There are another bunch of directories in C:\inetpub\wwwroot\STAGETEST\ and I need to zip only App_Config, Resources, bin - with all subdirectories and files, keeping structure.
For this I have a script:
$SOURCEDIR = "C:\inetpub\wwwroot\STAGETEST\"
$SOURCEFOLDERS = "App_Config", "Resources", "bin"
Get-ChildItem -Path $SOURCEDIR -Include "$SOURCEFOLDERS" -Directory
$SOURCE = Get-ChildItem -Path $SOURCEDIR -Directory
Add-Type -assembly "system.io.compression.filesystem"
Foreach ($s in $SOURCE)
{
$DESTINATIONDIR = Join-path -path $SOURCEDIR -ChildPath "$($s.name).zip"
#Check if archive already exists and delete it
If(Test-path $DESTINATIONDIR) {Remove-item $DESTINATIONDIR}
[io.compression.zipfile]::CreateFromDirectory($s.fullname, $DESTINATIONDIR)
Unfortunately, I cannot understand, how to implement proper Get-ChildItem -include to get all necessary multiple directories?
Perhaps, is there any other approach?
according to Get-ChildItem help:
Include -
Specifies, as a string array, an item or items that this cmdlet includes in the operation. The value of this parameter qualifies the Path parameter. Enter a path element or pattern, such as *.txt. Wildcards are permitted.
The Include parameter is effective only when the command includes the Recurse parameter or the path leads to the contents of a
directory, such as C:\Windows*, where the wildcard character specifies the contents of the C:\Windows directory.
so, You need an array and -Recurse parameter
$SOURCEFOLDERS = #("App_Config", "Resources", "bin")
$SOURCE = Get-ChildItem -Path $SOURCEDIR -Include $SOURCEFOLDERS -Directory -Recurse
This is what I am trying to do with powershell for zipping files.
Sort out files older than xxx days
Add those files in a zip file.
Delete the source files.
I have Powershell_Community_Extensions installed so I use Write-zip to do the job.
$Source = "\\network\share"
$files = Get-ChildItem -Path $Source | Where-Object {$_.LastWriteTime -lt (get-date).AddDays(-62)}
$files | Write-Zip -OutputPath $Source\Archive.zip -EntryPathRoot $Source -Append -Quiet
Remove-Item $files -Force
Issues:
I have to use -EntryPathRoot with Write-zip, otherwise it wont pick up network share
Remove-item also wont pickup files from network share, it says "Remove-Item : Cannot find path 'C:\Windows\system32\feb03.txt' because it does not exist.", why it deleting file from C:\Windows\system32\ instead of \\network\share
Write-zip -append did add files into the zip file, but it did not just add files in the root of that zip file, it actually created entire folder structure in the root of the zip and added newer filtered files in the end of that folder structure. I just want to add the newer filtered files into root of that zip file.
Any idea please?
Utilizing the v5 *Archive cmdlets:
$Source = '\\network\share'
$Files = Get-ChildItem -Path $Source |
Where-Object { $_.LastWriteTime -lt (Get-Date).AddDays(-62) }
Compress-Archive -Path $Files.FullName -DestinationPath $Source\Archive.zip -CompressionLevel Optimal -Update
$Files | Remove-Item -Force
I am trying to copy a whole bunch of files using Powershell, from one directory to another on my computer.
I used Get-ChildItem C:\Users\Tom\Google Drive\My Files\*\Assessment 1\* to identify that this was the path that I wanted to copy too, and I know about Copy-Item, but I want to maintain parts of the path name when copied.
Example:
If I copy from C:\Users\Tom\Google Drive\My Files\Cool Stuff\Assessment 1\*
I want the files to go to a folder that is created called C:\Users\Tom\Archive\Cool Stuff\Assessment 1
Whereas if I copy from C:\Users\Tom\Google Drive\My Files\New Stuff\Assessment 1\*
I want the files to go to a folder that is created called C:\Users\Tom\Archive\New Stuff\Assessment 1
You could use the Get-ChildItem cmdlet to recursively find all Assessment 1 folders within your base directory and then remove the base path using -replace to finally copy the items using the Copy-Item cmdlet:
$baseDir = 'C:\Users\Tom\Google Drive\My Files\'
$destination = 'C:\Users\Tom\Archive\'
Get-ChildItem $baseDir -directory -Filter 'Assessment 1' -Recurse | ForEach-Object {
$newPath = Join-Path $destination ($_.FullName -replace [regex]::Escape($baseDir))
Copy-Item $_.FullName $newPath -Force -Recurse
}
I am trying to write a PowerShell script that will copy a subset of files from a source folder and place them into a target folder. I've been playing with "copy-item" and "remove-item" for half a day and cannot get the desired or consistent results.
For example, when I run the following cmdlet multiple times, the files end up in different locations?!?!:
copy-item -Path $sourcePath -Destination $destinationPath -Include *.dll -Container -Force -Recurse
I've been trying every combination of options and commands I can think of but can't find the right solution. Since I'm sure that I'm not doing anything atypical, I'm hoping someone can ease my pain and provide me with the proper syntax to use.
The source folder will contain a large number of files with various extensions. For example, all of the following are possible:
.dll
.dll.config
.exe
.exe.config
.lastcodeanalysisissucceeded
.pdb
.Test.dll
.vshost.exe
.xml
and so on
The script needs to only copy .exe, .dll and .exe.config files excluding any .test.dll and .vshost.exe files. I also need the script to create the target folders if they don't already exist.
Any help getting me going is appreciated.
try:
$source = "C:\a\*"
$dest = "C:\b"
dir $source -include *.exe,*.dll,*.exe.config -exclude *.test.dll,*.vshost.exe -Recurse |
% {
$sp = $_.fullName.replace($sourcePath.replace('\*',''), $destPath)
if (!(Test-Path -path (split-path $sp)))
{
New-Item (split-path $sp) -Type Directory
}
copy-item $_.fullname $sp -force
}
As long as the files are in one directory, the following should work fine. It might be a bit more verbose than needed, but it should be a good starting point.
$sourcePath = "c:\sourcePath"
$destPath = "c:\destPath"
$items = Get-ChildItem $sourcePath | Where-Object {($_.FullName -like "*.exe") -or ($_.FullName -like "*.exe.config") -or ($_.FullName -like "*.dll")}
$items | % {
Copy-Item $_.Fullname ($_.FullName.Replace($sourcePath,$destPath))
}