Powershell - Move folder filtered on subfolders

Question

What I have so far:

Get-ChildItem -Path "\Networkdrive\Folder1\PROD- TEST\Successful" -Recurse |
Where-Object name -match '\w{10}_\w{3}' |
Move-Item -destination "\Networkdrive\Folder1\Archive- TEST\Archive_PROD_TEST\Successful" -Verbose

Inside of : "\Networkdrive\Folder1\PROD- TEST\Successful" are folders that look like: 9ce8eab8-cefe-4ec9-9158-ff40612d5c47 and then in them are more folders that have criteria 10 numbers with an _ and then followed by 3 numbers .

I want to move the: 9ce8eab8-cefe-4ec9-9158-ff40612d5c47 folder if any subfolder contains the criteria to: "\Networkdrive\Folder1\Archive- TEST\Archive_PROD_TEST\Successful", but I want to leave the Structure and files alone.

Right now the code just grabs the folders inside and then moves them, but leaves the "9ce8eab8-cefe-4ec9-9158-ff40612d5c47" folders alone. I want 9ce8eab8-cefe-4ec9-9158-ff40612d5c47 to be moved too.

Thank you for any help! Sorry if this question is confusing.

Answer 1

In case anyone needs this:
This was the solution:

$sourcePath = '\Networkdrive\Folder1\PROD- TEST\Successful'
$destination = '\Networkdrive\Folder1\Archive- TEST\Archive_PROD_TEST\Successful'
$folderPattern = '^[0-9a-f]{8}-[0-9a-f]{4}-[0-9a-f]{4}-[0-9a-f]{4}-[0-9a-f]{12}$'
$subdirPattern = '\d{10}\d{3}' # if the name must match FULLY, use anchors: '^\d{10}\d{3}$'

Get-ChildItem -Path $sourcePath -Directory | Where-Object {$.Name -match $folderPattern} | ForEach-Object {
# capture the folders FullName for when we hit the catch block in case of error
$targetFolder = $.FullName
if (@(Get-ChildItem -Path $targetFolder -Directory | Where-Object { $.Name -match $subdirPattern }).Count) {
# one or more subfolders found with name matching the $subdirPattern, so move the folder
Write-Host "Moving folder '$targetFolder'"
try {
Move-Item -Path $targetFolder -Destination $destination -Force -ErrorAction Stop
}
catch {
Write-Warning "Error moving folder '$targetFolder':rn$($.Exception.Message)"
}
}
}

Answer 2

Hi there,

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