Vista - Bug in copying file shares?

If I try to copy a folder share then it creates a new directory one level
lower than I expected. In this example, I want to copy the contents into
".../SysInternals" but it creates ".../SysInternals/Tools" instead.

PS C:\> copy-item "\\live.sysinternals.com\Tools" -destination "C:\Program
Files\SysInternals" -recurse -force -whatIf

What if: Performing operation "Copy Directory" on Target "Item:
\\live.sysinternals.com\Tools Destination: C:\Program Fi
les\SysInternals\Tools".

If I try again using a sub folder of the file share, then it works as I
expected:

PS C:\> copy-item "\\live.sysinternals.com\Tools\WindowsInternals"
-destination "C:\Program Files\SysInternals" -recurse -force -whatIf

What if: Performing operation "Copy Directory" on Target "Item:
\\live.sysinternals.com\Tools\WindowsInternals Destinati
on: C:\Program Files\SysInternals\WindowsInternals".


Is this a bug or am I missing something?

And either way, is there an easy way to get the effect I'm after?

--
Jonathan Allen

Here is an old thread that explains this bug/feature and the function 'xCopy'
--now renamed 'ezCopy'-- was introduced:
http://groups.google.com/group/micro...9b8b4424c2af22

# ezCopy checks for the presence of the
# destination folder and proceeds accordingly

function ezCopy (
[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
}

# then...
ezCopy \\live.sysinternals.com\Tools 'C:\Program Files\SysInternals'

--
Kiron

How about


PS C:\> copy-item "\\live.sysinternals.com\Tools\*" "C:\Program
Files\SysInternals" -recurse -force -whatif

Does that work?

When I used *.* it didn't get sub-directories even though I specified
-recurse. If I think of it I will try just * tomorrow.

--
Jonathan Allen


"Mohan Gupta" wrote: