I am currently learning how to use PowerShell. I was wondering if it would be possible for someone to tell me how to copy multiple text files from multiple sub-directories using the command line portion of PowerShell. I know how to do this in regular CMD and it looks something like this:
for /f "delims=" %F in ('dir \*.txt /s/b') do copy "%~F" "C:\test\" /Y
But obviously this does not work in PowerShell and needs a good bit of tweaking. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks!
I was actually able to figure it out. This is how i did it:
get-childitem -path "SOURCE\PATH" -filter *.txt -recurse | copy-item -destination "DESTINATION\PATH"
Thanks anyway!
This is a very simple line. test-servers.txt is the file containing your list of servers/machines (one entry per line).
Get-Content C:\Temp\test-servers.txt | ForEach-Object { Invoke-Command -ScriptBlock{Copy-Item -Path C:\Temp\resources\* -Destination ("\\" + $_ + "\C$\<path-of-interest>\")}}
NOTE: $_ is a variable holding each entry in your test-servers.txt file recursively.
NOTE: This specific example copies all files in the "path" to a list of "remote" servers/machines.
To pass in multiple file names, you can list them comma-delimited in the command.
mkdir a, b, c
cp a,b c
This results in both directories a and b being copied into directory c.
PS C:\Users\Vitorio> dir c
Directory: C:\Users\Vitorio\c
Mode LastWriteTime Length Name
---- ------------- ------ ----
d---- 07.11.2021 18:13 a
d---- 07.11.2021 18:13 b
