how to copy all folders and contents by file name

Question

I need to copy files on a remote drive; the problem is I only need to copy folders and their contents when it contains DONE, but they have dates in the filename. MM-DD-YY DONE.
I have found a way to copy the entire parent folder, but can't remove all unneeded files that don't contain MM-DD-YY DONE so I have that idea on the back burner.

Ideally I would like to just be able to copy all of the MM-DD-YY DONE for T:\XX - foldername* to C:\XX - foldername\ to keep consistency
There are multiple files ending in DONE but it will only copy one or some, and then if it does copy one over it is missing the contents.

I would greatly appreciate any assistance please.

Answer 1

Why not use Get-ChildItem on the source directory and pipe the results into Where-Object and test the name (or fullname) for the value "done"? Pipe the results of that into your Copy-Item.

If you already have a script, post it (use the "Code Sample" icon in the Format Bar -- it's the one with the "101 010" graphic).

Answer 2

Thank you for responding! I have found this way to pull all files with MM-DD-YY DONE with "* DONE", and then once on the local / destination C:\tmp\XX - foldername I try to remove the folders that didn't only match the MM-DD-YY DONE / "* DONE". I just couldn't seem to be able to pull only the required files and had to include the Remove-Item in $strings

$sourcefolder1 = "T:\XX - foldername"
Set-Location $sourcefolder1
$strings=@("z2021 *", "2021 ")
get-childitem -recurse -include " DONE" | foreach-object -process {
$source1 = $.FullName
$dest1 = "C:\tmp\XX - foldername" + $Source1.Substring($sourcefolder1.Length, $.FullName.Length - $sourcefolder1.Length)
$source1
$dest1
Copy-item -path $source1 -destination $dest1 -recurse -container
}
Set-Location "C:\tmp\XX - foldername"; get-childitem -Include ($strings) -Recurse -force | Remove-Item -Force –Recurse