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Old 10-18-2007   #2 (permalink)
Brandon Shell [MVP]


 
 

Re: Getting Copy-Item to display messages (like the old COPY command in CMD.EXE) ??

use the -verbose switch

Brandon Shell
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MS> Folks,
MS>
MS> I really enjoy PowerShell, and its power - but sometimes, things are
MS> a bit irritating - like the fact that teh Copy-Item command doesn't
MS> seem to display messages about what it's doing at all. You never get
MS> any feedback printed on the standard out console to let you know
MS> that a file has indeed been copied.....
MS>
MS> Any way to turn that on?? I didn't find any mention of it in the
MS> "man pages" as far as I can tell.....
MS>
MS> Thanks!
MS> Marc


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