PowerShell - Copy specific files from specific folders - powershell

Question

So, the folder structure looks like this:
SourceFolder
file1.txt
file1.doc
Subfolder1
file2.txt
file2.doc
SubSubFolder
file3.txt
doc3.txt
What I want to do is copy all .txt files from folders, whose (folder) names contains the eng, to a destination folder. Just all the files inside the folder - not the file structure.
What I used is this:
$dest = "C:\Users\username\Desktop\Final"
$source = "C:\Users\username\Desktop\Test1"
Copy-Item $source\eng*\*.txt $dest -Recurse
The problem is that it copies the .txt files only from each parent folder but not the sub-folders.
How can I include all the sub-folders in this script and keep the eng name check as well? Can you please help me?
I am talking about PowerShell commands. Should I use robocopy instead?

Answer 1

Yet another PowerShell solution :)
# Setup variables
$Dst = 'C:\Users\username\Desktop\Final'
$Src = 'C:\Users\username\Desktop\Test1'
$FolderName = 'eng*'
$FileType = '*.txt'
# Get list of 'eng*' file objects
Get-ChildItem -Path $Src -Filter $FolderName -Recurse -Force |
# Those 'eng*' file objects should be folders
Where-Object {$_.PSIsContainer} |
# For each 'eng*' folder
ForEach-Object {
# Copy all '*.txt' files in it to the destination folder
Copy-Item -Path (Join-Path -Path $_.FullName -ChildPath '\*') -Filter $FileType -Destination $Dst -Force
}

Answer 2

You can do this :
$dest = "C:\NewFolder"
$source = "C:\TestFolder"
$files = Get-ChildItem $source -File -include "*.txt" -Recurse | Where-Object { $_.DirectoryName -like "*eng*" }
Copy-Item -Path $files -Destination $dest

Answer 3

Another take:
$SourceRoot = <Source folder path>
$TargetFolder = <Target folder path>
#(Get-ChildItem $SourceRoot -Recurse -File -Filter *.txt| Select -ExpandProperty Fullname) -like '*\eng*\*' |
foreach {Copy-Item $_ -Destination $TargetFolder}

Answer 4

It may be easier to first get a list of all the folders that contain eng in the name.
$dest = "C:\Users\username\Desktop\Final"
$source = "C:\Users\username\Desktop\Test1"
$engFolders = Get-ChildItem $source -Directory -Recurse | Where { $_.BaseName -match "^eng" }
Foreach ($folder In $engFolders) {
Copy-Item ($folder.FullName + "\*.txt") $dest
}

Answer 5

Fine to do that with powershell. Try:
$dest = "C:\Users\username\Desktop\Final"
$source = "C:\Users\username\Desktop\Test1"
Get-ChildItem $source -filter "*.txt" -Recurse | Where-Object { $_.DirectoryName -match "eng"} | ForEach-Object { Copy-Item $_.fullname $dest }