VRSki

Thanks Kiron.

"Kiron" <Kiron@HighPlainsDrifter.com> wrote in message
news:6CAEDDC7-0F1A-4B21-8FB0-E6102A16EB51@microsoft.com...
> To work around this bug?/feature? in Copy-Item you can check the existence
> of the destination then execute accordingly:
>
> if (test-path c:\test\dest\)
> {
> copy-item c:\test\src\* c:\test\dest\ -recurse -force
> }
> else
> {
> copy-item c:\test\src\ c:\test\dest\ -recurse -force
> }
>
> But if you want to save some typing and time, this function will get the
> results you expect.
> First it deletes the ending asterisk of the source path because if the
> destination does not exist Copy-Item ignores the source's child
> subdirectory. (If there is no asterisk at the end of the source path it is
> unchanged)
> Then it checks for the existence of the destination directory, if it
> exists
> the switch statement adds the asterisk to the source path.
> Finally Copy-Item gets the right variation of the source path and copies
> the
> child items.
>
> function xCopy
> (
> [string]$src = $(throw "Specify the source directory"),
> [string]$dest = $(throw "Specify the destination diirectory")
> )
> {
> $src = $src -replace '\*$'
> if (test-path $dest)
> {
> switch -regex ($src)
> {
> '\\$' {$src = "$src*"; break}
> '\w$' {$src = "$src\*"; break}
> default {break}
> }
> }
> copy-item $src $dest -recurse -force
> }
>
> You can call the function like:
> xCopy c:\test\src c:\test\dest\
> xCopy c:\test\src\ c:\test\dest\
> xCopy c:\test\src\* c:\test\dest\
>
> ...or minimally naming the parameters (position does not matter)
> xCopy -d c:\test\dest\ -s c:\test\src
> xCopy -d c:\test\dest\ -s c:\test\src\
> xCopy -d c:\test\dest\ -s c:\test\src\*
>
> --
> Kiron
>