Move-Item - Powershell using ForEach

Question

What I am trying to do is the following...

I have a .txt file with a list of files which I want moved to a different location. So for example...

The source directory has dll files but I only want to move a subset of them not all, which I have already populated in the text file. This will move them to a destination directory.

I'm still learning powershell so any advice would be great...

Thanks :)

Answer 1

If the full path name of the DLLs are in the file then this should work:

Move-Item -Path (Get-Content x:\directory\file-with-dll-names.txt) -Destination y:\new-directory

If you have only the DDL name, and not the full path, in the file then this should work:

Get-Content x:\directory\file-with-dll-names.txt |
    ForEach-Object{
        Move-Item -Path "I:\source-directory\$_" -Destination y:\new-directory
    }