It´s my first post and I begin with a dummie issue!

I'm using powershell to copy/move files.



Every minute I received files on SOURCE folder. I have to complete two
goals: copy source files to destination1 and move source files to
destination2.

This is my code:


$listoffiles = Get-ChildItem d:\source\*.*
copy-Item -Path $listoffiles -destination d:\destination1\
move-Item -Path $listoffiles -destination d:\destination2\ -force


Questions:
- Is it the best pratice?
- Is it the best way?

I saw that sometimes the performance of move is low (when I'm with more than
2k files in source folder). I'm worry about the $listoffiles character limit.

Thank's, hugs for all and sorry by bad english!

Rafael França
Brazil

Excuse the typo, I wrote 'c:\' instead of 'd:'...

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Kiron

tks Kiron,

I will test it.

However, I would know if the variable "$xxx" has character limitation (size).
I think that a list of 2k (or more) files cause a buffer overflow.

Again, thank you.

Rafael.

"Kiron" wrote:

> Excuse the typo, I wrote 'c:\' instead of 'd:'...
>
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> Kiron
>

Is not a good idea to store large collections/content in a variable, instead pipe each item to a Cmdlet, process and pipe it to another Cmdlet. That is where the Power of PowerShell lies, it processes objects not just text.

For more on the pipeline execute this:

help about_pipeline

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Kiron

Thank you Kiron!

It works fine!


"Kiron" wrote:

> Is not a good idea to store large collections/content in a variable,
> instead pipe each item to a Cmdlet, process and pipe it to another Cmdlet.
> That is where the Power of PowerShell lies, it processes objects not just
> text.
>
> For more on the pipeline execute this:
>
> help about_pipeline
>
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> Kiron
>