PowerShell Copy-Item for Selective Directory Copy

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PowerShell Copy-Item for Selective Directory Copy

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Hi,

I have following directory structure:

The ParentDir is located at C:\Data\ParentDir (always same path)
This ParentDir has several Sub-Directories with dynamically or randomly created names (for example DynamicDir 1, DynamicDir N).
Each DynamicDir has same folder structure (like Years, Months, Weeks, Numbers, Alphabets etc.).
When I use following PowerShell command it copies everything from source to destination (as it should be)

Copy-Item C:\Data\ParentDir -Destination E:\Storage -RECURSE -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue

But can I just copy my required directories only, for example Numbers and Year (marked with blue in screenshot) and ignore everything else?

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Anonymous

Hi,

Does this work for you?

$source = "C:\Data\ParentDir"  
$destination =  "E:\Storage"  
$includes = "Numbers","Year"  
Get-ChildItem -Path $source -Directory -Recurse | Where-Object {$_.Name -in $includes} |   
 ForEach-Object{copy-item $_.FullName -Destination $_.FullName.Replace($source, $destination) -Recurse -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue}

Best Regards，
Ian Xue

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2021-01-20T08:15:37.25+00:00

Thanks Ian Xue for sharing, it worked as I was looking for, appreciated.

Answer 2

Andreas Baumgarten 123.7K MVP Volunteer Moderator

Maybe this is helpful (not tested!):

$includes = "Numbers","Year"
Get-ChildItem "C:\Data\ParentDir" -Directory -Recurse |
    Where {$_.Name -in $includes} |
    Copy-Item -Destination "E:\Storage" -Recurse -Force -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue

(If the reply was helpful please don't forget to upvote and/or accept as answer, thank you)

Regards
Andreas Baumgarten

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Thanks for reply Andreas,

I didn't get child directory structure (like DynamicDir 1, DynamicDir 2 etc) but only get Numbers and Year folder.

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