I trying to make a script which compare two directory ( source, destination) and if there are a difference on destination, copy files from source to destination.
The problem is that I don't know how copy the tree of files too.
Example:
$s = "C:\source\client"
$t = "C:\destination\client"
$target = Get-ChildItem $t -Recurse
$source = get-childitem $s -Recurse
Compare-Object $source $target -Property Name , Length |
Where-Object { $_.SideIndicator -eq '<=' } |
foreach-object -process{
copy-item $_.FullName -destination $t
}
If I have a file in source ( C:\source\client\bin\file.txt) and not in the destination folder, how is the code to copy the file in C:\destination\client\bin\file.txt ?
Thanks.
I am in the process of testing this more. From what i can see the logic of your code is sound.
Compare-Object $source $target -Property Name , Length |
Where-Object { $_.SideIndicator -eq '<=' } | Select-Object -ExpandProperty inputobject |
foreach-object -process{
copy-item $_.FullName -destination $t
}
Once you have the compare done pipe the results after the Where in Select-Object -ExpandProperty inputobject to extract the File item so that you can see the FullName property
copy-item has a -recurse parameter that will let you specify the root of a directory and then copy everything below it
copy-item c:\test d:\test -recurse -force
Edit:
The problem is for repeated tasks you can't stop it from trying to overwrite everything. You can add -force to make it do it, but it is not very efficient.
Alternatively (and probably a better and simpler way to go about this) you could call robocopy with the /mir switch
Thanks for sharing. Here is what I have done with everything I searched to compare MD5 and then copy only newly added and different files.
With [Compare contents of two folders using PowerShell Get-FileHash] from http://almoselhy.azurewebsites.net/2014/12/compare-contents-of-two-folders-using-powershell-get-filehash/
$LeftFolder = "D:\YFMS_Target"
$RightFolder = "D:\YFMS_Copy"
$LeftSideHash = #(Get-ChildItem $LeftFolder -Recurse | Get-FileHash -Algorithm MD5| select #{Label="Path";Expression={$_.Path.Replace($LeftFolder,"")}},Hash)
$RightSideHash = #(Get-ChildItem $RightFolder -Recurse | Get-FileHash -Algorithm MD5| select #{Label="Path";Expression={$_.Path.Replace($RightFolder,"")}},Hash)
robocopy $LeftFolder $RightFolder /e /xf *
Write-Host "robocopy LastExitCode: $LastExitCode"
if ($LastExitCode -gt 7) { exit $LastExitCode } else { $global:LastExitCode = $null }
Compare-Object $LeftSideHash $RightSideHash -Property Path,Hash | Where-Object { $_.SideIndicator -eq '<=' } | foreach { Copy-Item -LiteralPath (Join-Path $LeftFolder $_.Path) -Destination (Join-Path $RightFolder $_.Path) -verbose}
Related
I´m trying to get a
a) list of all empty folders and subfolders if the folder is named "Archiv"
b) I´d like to delete all those empty folders. My current approch doesn´t check the subfolders.
It would be also great if the results would be exportet in a .csv =)
$TopDir = 'C:\Users\User\Test'
$DirToFind = 'Archiv'>$EmptyDirList = #(
Get-ChildItem -LiteralPath $TopDir -Directory -Recurse |
Where-Object {
#[System.IO.Directory]::GetFileSystemEntries($_.FullName).Count -eq 0
$_.GetFileSystemInfos().Count -eq 0 -and
$_.Name -match $DirToFind
}
).FullName
$EmptyDirList
Any ideas how to adjust the code? Thanks in advance
You need to reverse the order in which Get-ChildItem lists the items so you can remove using the deepest nested empty folder first.
$LogFile = 'C:\Users\User\RemovedEmptyFolders.log'
$TopDir = 'C:\Users\User\Test'
# first get a list of all folders below the $TopDir directory that are named 'Archiv' (FullNames only)
$archiveDirs = (Get-ChildItem -LiteralPath $TopDir -Filter 'Archiv' -Recurse -Directory -Force).FullName |
# sort on the FullName.Length property in Descending order to get 'deepest-nesting-first'
Sort-Object -Property Length -Descending
# next, remove all empty subfolders in each of the $archiveDirs
$removed = foreach ($dir in $archiveDirs) {
(Get-ChildItem -LiteralPath $dir -Directory -Force) |
# sort on the FullName.Length property in Descending order to get 'deepest-nesting-first'
Sort-Object #{Expression = {$_.FullName.Length}} -Descending |
ForEach-Object {
# if this folder is empty, remove it and output its FullName for the log
if (#($_.GetFileSystemInfos()).Count -eq 0) {
$_.FullName
Remove-Item -LiteralPath $_.FullName -Force
}
}
# next remove the 'Archiv' folder that is now possibly empty too
if (#(Get-ChildItem -LiteralPath $dir -Force).Count -eq 0) {
# output this folders fullname and delete
$dir
Remove-Item -LiteralPath $dir -Force
}
}
$removed | Set-Content -Path $LogFile -PassThru # write your log file. -PassThru also writes the output on screen
Not sure a CSV is needed, I think a simple text file will suffice as it's just a list.
Anyway, here's (although not the most elegant) a solution which will also delete "nested empty directories". Meaning if a directory only contains empty directorIS, it will also get deleted
$TopDir = "C:\Test" #Top level directory to scan
$EmptyDirListReport = "C:\EmptyDirList.txt" #Text file location to store a file with the list of deleted directorues
if (Test-Path -Path $EmptyDirListReport -PathType Leaf)
{
Remove-Item -Path $EmptyDirListReport -Force
}
$EmptyDirList = ""
Do
{
$EmptyDirList = Get-ChildItem -Path $TopDir -Recurse | Where-Object -FilterScript { $_.PSIsContainer } | Where-Object -FilterScript { ((Get-ChildItem -Path $_.FullName).Count -eq 0) } | Select-Object -ExpandProperty FullName
if ($EmptyDirList)
{
$EmptyDirList | Out-File -FilePath $EmptyDirListReport -Append
$EmptyDirList | Remove-Item -Force
}
} while ($EmptyDirList)
This should do the trick, should works with nested too.
$result=(Get-ChildItem -Filter "Archiv" -Recurse -Directory $topdir | Sort-Object #{Expression = {$_.FullName.Length}} -Descending | ForEach-Object {
if ((Get-ChildItem -Attributes d,h,a $_.fullname).count -eq 0){
$_
rmdir $_.FullName
}
})
$result | select Fullname |ConvertTo-Csv |Out-File $Logfile
You can do this with a one-liner:
> Get-ChildItem -Recurse dir -filter Archiv |
Where-Object {($_ | Get-ChildItem).count -eq 0} |
Remove-Item
Although, for some reason, if you have nested Archiv files like Archiv/Archiv, you need to run the line several times.
I am trying to come up with a script to copy folders from one server to another. I might be going about this wrong, but I'm try to copy the directories from one server into an array, copy the directories from the second server into an array, compare them and then create the folders needed in the server that doesn't have them:
[array]$folders = Get-ChildItem -Path \\spesety01\TGT\TST\XRM\Test -Recurse -Directory -Force -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue | Select-Object -ExpandProperty FullName
[array]$folders2 = Get-ChildItem -Path \\sutwove02\TGT\TST\XRN -Recurse -Directory -Force -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue | Select-Object -ExpandProperty FullName
$folders | ForEach-Object {
if ($folders2 -notcontains "$_") {
New-Item "$_" -type directory
}
}
The issue is that the "$_" (in the ForEach loop)refers to the server in "$folders" and when I run the script, I get an error that the folder already exists. Is there some way to specify to copy the folders to the new server? I accept that my approach might be completely off on this and I might be making it harder than it needs to be.
<#
.SYNOPSIS
using path A as reference, make any sub directories that are missing in path B
#>
Param(
[string]$PathA,
[string]$PathB
)
$PathADirs = (Get-ChildItem -Path $PathA -Recurse -Directory).FullName
$PathBDirs = (Get-ChildItem -Path $PathB -Recurse -Directory).FullName
$PreList = Compare-Object -ReferenceObject $PathADirs -DifferenceObject $PathBDirs.replace($PathB,$PathA) |
Where-Object -Property SideIndicator -EQ "<=" |
Select-Object -ExpandProperty 'InputObject'
$TargetList = $PreList.Replace($PathA,$PathB)
New-Item -Path $TargetList -ItemType 'Directory'
I want to copy a file to multiple destinations using a script that filters through a directory and selects the newest file in the $File_path then change its name and copies it to the $destination, the script i'm using is this:
$File_path = "C:\TEMP\export\liste\Text_Utf8\"
$destination = "C:\TEMP\export\C7E001"
get-childitem -path $File_path -Filter "Ges?*.txt" |
where-object { -not $_.PSIsContainer } |
sort-object -Property $_.CreationTime |
select-object -last 1 | copy-item -Destination (join-path $destination "FRER3000CCFETES01_IN.DEV")
this only copies it to one location, is there a way to improve it to copy the same file to multiple locations? i have seen this thread but it seems different.
the other locations are as follow:
C:\TEMP\export\C7P001
C:\TEMP\export\C7F001
C:\TEMP\export\C7S001
and so on.
thank you.
Although my answer isn't very different to Peter's answer, This uses the LastWriteTime property to get the latest file and uses the FullName property of the file to copy in the Copy-Item cmdlet.
$File_path = "C:\TEMP\export\liste\Text_Utf8"
$destinations = "C:\TEMP\export\C7E001", "C:\TEMP\export\C7F001", "C:\TEMP\export\C7S001"
$fileToCopy = Get-ChildItem -Path $File_path -Filter "Ges*.txt" -File |
Sort-Object -Property $_.LastWriteTime |
Select-Object -Last 1
foreach ($dest in $destinations) {
Copy-Item -Path $fileToCopy.FullName -Destination (Join-Path -Path $dest -ChildPath "FRER3000CCFETES01_IN.DEV")
}
You can use an foreach object loop
$File_path = "C:\TEMP\export\liste\Text_Utf8\"
$destination = "C:\TEMP\export\C7E001", "C:\TEMP\export\C7P001", "C:\TEMP\export\C7F001", "C:\TEMP\export\C7S001"
$Files = get-childitem -path $File_path -Filter "Ges?*.txt" |
where-object { -not $_.PSIsContainer } |
sort-object -Property $_.CreationTime |
select-object -last 1
$Destination | Foreach-Object {copy-item $Files -Destination (join-path $_ "FRER3000CCFETES01_IN.DEV")}
I have this PowerShell code that compares 2 directories and removes files if the files no longer exist in the source directory.
For example say I have Folder 1 & Folder 2. I want to compare Folder 1 with Folder 2, If a file doesn't exist anymore in Folder 1 it will remove it from Folder 2.
this code works ok but I have a problem where it also picks up file differences on the date/time. I only want it to pick up a difference if the file doesn't exist anymore in Folder 1.
Compare-Object $source $destination -Property Name -PassThru | Where-Object {$_.SideIndicator -eq "=>"} | % {
if(-not $_.FullName.PSIsContainer) {
UPDATE-LOG "File: $($_.FullName) has been removed from source"
Remove-Item -Path $_.FullName -Force -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
}
}
Is there an extra Where-Object {$file1 <> $file2} or something like that.?
I am not sure how you are getting the information for $source and $destination I am assuming you are using Get-ChildItem
What i would do to eliminate the issue with date/time would be to not capture it in these variables. For Example:
$source = Get-ChildItem C:\temp\Folder1 -Recurse | select -ExpandProperty FullName
$destination = Get-ChildItem C:\temp\Folder2 -Recurse | select -ExpandProperty FullName
By doing this you only get the FullName Property for each object that is a child item not the date/time.
You would need to change some of the script after doing this for it to still work.
If I am not getting it wrong, the issue is your code is deleting the file with different time-stamp as compared to source:
Did you try -ExcludeProperty?
$source = Get-ChildItem "E:\New folder" -Recurse | select -ExcludeProperty Date
The following script can serve your purpose
$Item1=Get-ChildItem 'SourcePath'
$Item2=Get-ChildItem 'DestinationPath'
$DifferenceItem=Compare-Object $Item1 $Item2
$ItemToBeDeleted=$DifferenceItem | where {$_.SideIndicator -eq "=>" }
foreach ($item in $ItemToBeDeleted)
{
$FullPath=$item.InputObject.FullName
Remove-Item $FullPath -Force
}
Try something like this
In PowerShell V5:
$yourdir1="c:\temp"
$yourdir2="c:\temp2"
$filesnamedir1=(gci $yourdir1 -file).Name
gci $yourdir2 -file | where Name -notin $filesnamedir1| remove-item
In old PowerShell:
$yourdir1="c:\temp"
$yourdir2="c:\temp2"
$filesnamedir1=(gci $yourdir1 | where {$_.psiscontainer -eq $false}).Name
gci $yourdir2 | where {$_.psiscontainer -eq $false -and $_.Name -notin $filesnamedir1} | remove-item
If you want to compare files in multiple dir, use the -recurse option for every gci command.
I created ps script to copy only files in the folder structure- recursive
cp $source.Text -Recurse -Container:$false -destination $destination.Text
$dirs = gci $destination.Text -directory -recurse | Where { (gci $_.fullName).count -eq 0 } | select -expandproperty FullName
$dirs | Foreach-Object { Remove-Item $_ }
it is working fine. but the problem i have files in the same names. it is not copying duplicated files. i need to rename if file already exist
source:
folderA--> xxx.txt,yyy.txt,
folderB-->xxx.txt,yyy.txt,zzz.txt,
folderc-->xxx.txt
destination (requirement)
xxx.txt
xxx1.txt
xxx2.txt
yyy.txt
yyy1.txt
zzz.txt
Here a solution where I use the Group-Object cmdlet to group all items by the filename. I then iterate over each group and if the group contains more then one file, I append _$ito it where $i starts by one and gets incremented:
$source = $source.Text
$destination = $destination.Text
Get-ChildItem $source -File -Recurse | Group-Object Name | ForEach-Object {
if ($_.Count -gt 1) { # rename duplicated files
$_.Group | ForEach-Object -Begin {$i = 1} -Process {
$newFileName = $_.Name -replace '(.*)\.(.*)', "`$1_$i.`$2"
$i++
Copy-Item -Path $_.FullName -Destination (Join-Path $destination $newFileName)
}
}
else # the filename is unique, just copy it.
{
$_.Group | Copy-Item -Destination $destination
}
}
Note:
You may change the -File to -Container:$false if your PowerShell version doesn't support it. Also note that the script doesn't look into the destination folder whether a file with the same name already exist.