Newbie Needs Help With Folder script!

Hi All,

I need to write a script that reads in a list of user directories from
a text file, and renames any existing file to "usernameold", and then
just copies them from one share to another.

Basically I just want to rename \\oldserver\share\user1 to \\oldserver
\share\user1old and then to copy in \\newserver\share\user1 to \
\oldserver\share\user1. and to repeat this for a number of folders in
a text file.

Any hints, or starting points would be greatly appreciated!!

Cheers,
M

You can make use of following cmdlet + some logic for your requirement

#Check if the file exists or not
Test-Path $FileName

# Renames the file
Rename-Item -path $OldFileName $NewFileName

# Removes the file
Remove-Item $File

#Creates new directory
New-Item -Path $Folder -Name $FolderName -Type directory -Force


"Mícheál" <michael.halpin@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1176290895.915025.187920@o5g2000hsb.googlegroups.com...
> Hi All,
>
> I need to write a script that reads in a list of user directories from
> a text file, and renames any existing file to "usernameold", and then
> just copies them from one share to another.
>
> Basically I just want to rename \\oldserver\share\user1 to \\oldserver
> \share\user1old and then to copy in \\newserver\share\user1 to \
> \oldserver\share\user1. and to repeat this for a number of folders in
> a text file.
>
> Any hints, or starting points would be greatly appreciated!!
>
> Cheers,
> M
>

On Apr 11, 12:28 pm, "Mícheál" <michael.hal...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I need to write a script that reads in a list of user directories from
> a text file, and renames any existing file to "usernameold", and then
> just copies them from one share to another.
>
> Basically I just want to rename \\oldserver\share\user1 to \\oldserver
> \share\user1old and then to copy in \\newserver\share\user1 to \
> \oldserver\share\user1. and to repeat this for a number of folders in
> a text file.
>
> Any hints, or starting points would be greatly appreciated!!
>
> Cheers,
> M

You could start by reading in the dir list and looping through each
line, and then inside that loop, loop through each of files contained
in each folder - something like this: untested - but should get you
going... ($_ refers to the current item in the iteration)

get-content dirlist.txt | foreach {
gci $_ | foreach {
cp $_.fullname "\\newserver\share\($_.name).old"
}
}

On Apr 11, 1:43 pm, "Duncan Smith" <DSmith1...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Apr 11, 12:28 pm, "Mícheál" <michael.hal...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi All,
>
> > I need to write a script that reads in a list of user directories from
> > a text file, and renames any existing file to "usernameold", and then
> > just copies them from one share to another.
>
> > Basically I just want to rename \\oldserver\share\user1 to \\oldserver
> > \share\user1old and then to copy in \\newserver\share\user1 to \
> > \oldserver\share\user1. and to repeat this for a number of folders in
> > a text file.
>
> > Any hints, or starting points would be greatly appreciated!!
>
> > Cheers,
> > M
>
> You could start by reading in the dir list and looping through each
> line, and then inside that loop, loop through each of files contained
> in each folder - something like this: untested - but should get you
> going... ($_ refers to the current item in the iteration)
>
> get-content dirlist.txt | foreach {
> gci $_ | foreach {
> cp $_.fullname "\\newserver\share\($_.name).old"
> }
>
> }

Thanks Duncan (and Nikhil),

I'l work from that and post back what I come up with.

Cheers!!
M

On Apr 11, 2:01 pm, "Mícheál" <michael.hal...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Apr 11, 1:43 pm, "Duncan Smith" <DSmith1...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > On Apr 11, 12:28 pm, "Mícheál" <michael.hal...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > Hi All,
>
> > > I need to write a script that reads in a list of user directories from
> > > a text file, and renames any existing file to "usernameold", and then
> > > just copies them from one share to another.
>
> > > Basically I just want to rename \\oldserver\share\user1 to \\oldserver
> > > \share\user1old and then to copy in \\newserver\share\user1 to \
> > > \oldserver\share\user1. and to repeat this for a number of folders in
> > > a text file.
>
> > > Any hints, or starting points would be greatly appreciated!!
>
> > > Cheers,
> > > M
>
> > You could start by reading in the dir list and looping through each
> > line, and then inside that loop, loop through each of files contained
> > in each folder - something like this: untested - but should get you
> > going... ($_ refers to the current item in the iteration)
>
> > get-content dirlist.txt | foreach {
> > gci $_ | foreach {
> > cp $_.fullname "\\newserver\share\($_.name).old"
> > }
>
> > }
>
> Thanks Duncan (and Nikhil),
>
> I'l work from that and post back what I come up with.
>
> Cheers!!
> M

Hi Guys,

in the end I didn't need to use it, but here's what I had and this bit
worked (mostly!). The mv command wouldn't work unless both shares had
the same root, I tried mapping drives to letters but still no joy.
Anyway, the little bit of code at the start might help someone!



$NewServer= "\\server2\test"
$OldServer= "\\server1\scripts"

gc c:\test\users.txt | Foreach-Object{
$folder = $_
echo "$folder" #just for debugging
ren $folder $folder+old
mv t:\$_ u:\
}