Vista - -container in Copy-Item

Hi all

I am trying to find out what are the possible values for -container


like in Copy-Item .... -container WHAT?

What are the possible values for what comes after -container? Help says
its a "switch" .... and that means that the possible values are?

perhaps -container ON or container OFF ?

or -container Y or N ?

1 or 0 ?

T or F ?

Technet does not anything more than help on this -container

Thanks for your help

It's a SwitchParameter. A SwitchParameter takes boolean values.
Generally, when you specify a SwitchParameter it's equal to $true otherwise
it's $false. As you can see below, $true is the default.


PS > help Copy-Item -full

(...)
-container <SwitchParameter>
Preserves container objects during the copy operation.

Required? false
Position? named
Default value True
Accept pipeline input? false
Accept wildcard characters? false



You can also specify it like so (disable):

Copy-Item -container:$false



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Shay Levi
$cript Fanatic
http://scriptolog.blogspot.com

You usually use switches with nothing after them, as this short function
illustrates ....

function switchtest {
param([switch]$MySwitch)
Write-Host $MySwitch
}


#Output......

PS (2) > switchtest
False
PS (3) > switchtest -myswitch
True
PS (4) >

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Jon


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