Copy files to subfolders using powershell

Question

Hi All, I am trying to figure out why the script line below does not work as what I am trying to do is to copy a bunch of text files to sub-folders under a folder above.. for example, I want to copy to c:\temp\plugins\ and then have the script copy to every sub-folder

Copy-Item -Path "C:\TEMP\source\" -Destination "C:\Temp\Plugins" -Recurse -Force -Filter "*.txt"

Answer 1

Copy-Item

Also, kindly go through the following thread:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/555481/how-to-copy-foldersubfolders-from-source-to-destin.html

Answer 2

Given this...

C:\Temp\source\Subfolder1\New OpenDocument Text.txt

Then this command...

Copy-Item -Path "C:\TEMP\source\" -Destination "C:\Temp\newfolder\" -Recurse -Force -Filter "*.txt"

Will produce...

C:\Temp\newfolder\source\Subfolder1\New OpenDocument Text.txt

And this command....

Get-ChildItem -Path "C:\TEMP\source\" -directory | foreach {Copy-Item -Path $_.fullname -Destination "C:\Temp\newfolder\" -Recurse -Force -Filter "*.txt"}  

Will produce...

C:\Temp\newfolder\Subfolder1\New OpenDocument Text.txt

If you want something different, then you will need to explain what you are looking for.