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Old 04-10-2008   #1 (permalink)
Jian An Lim


 
 

Powershell to copy a some file/folder to multiple location

Hi,

i am new to scripting so please bear with me.

I got some folder and need to copy to multiple location (which all
subfolders under a single folder)

i try to write up the code like this but it doesnt seems to work,

can anyone share idea?

' S:\template have all the folder it required
' C:\test should have 5 subfolder
$a = Get-ChildItem 'C:\test' -Force -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue | ft name
foreach($file in $a)
{
copy "S:\Templates\*" c:\test\$file
}


any hint?

thanks

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Old 04-10-2008   #2 (permalink)
Brandon Shell [MVP]


 
 

Re: Powershell to copy a some file/folder to multiple location

Don't use Format-Table (ft) it changes the object type.

Why not just use the -recurse flag for copy?

copy "S:\Templates\*" -dest c:\test\$file -rec -whatif

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Quote:

> Hi,
>
> i am new to scripting so please bear with me.
>
> I got some folder and need to copy to multiple location (which all
> subfolders under a single folder)
>
> i try to write up the code like this but it doesnt seems to work,
>
> can anyone share idea?
>
> ' S:\template have all the folder it required
> ' C:\test should have 5 subfolder
> $a = Get-ChildItem 'C:\test' -Force -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue | ft
> name
> foreach($file in $a)
> {
> copy "S:\Templates\*" c:\test\$file
> }
>
>
> any hint?
>
> thanks
My System SpecsSystem Spec
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