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user3602030
user3602030

Reputation: 87

Copy recursively a directory excluding a subdirectory and ITS CONTENT

I found solutions, but this solutions don't exclude the content of the subdirectories excluded.

I want copy recursively a directory to another location, but excluding the subdirectory "Videos" and its content. The next command finish, but no exclude the subdirectory "Videos" and its content.

# PowerShell version: 4.0
# This command copy recursively the directory "J:\All" to "J:\Users\John\Desktop\my_backup", excluding "J:\All\Videos"
Copy-Item -Recurse -Path ("J:\All" | ? { $_.FullName -NotMatch ("^J:\\All\\Videos") }) "J:\Users\John\Desktop\my_backup"

Thank you!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 945

Answers (2)

mjolinor
mjolinor

Reputation: 68273

Try this:

$Source = 'J:\All'
$Destination = 'J:\Users\John\Desktop\my_backup\'
$Exclude = 'J:\All\Videos'

Get-Childitem -Recurse -Path $Source | 
Where-Object  { $Exclude -notcontains $_.Directory } |
foreach {
 $TrimmedPath = ($_.fullname -replace [regex]::escape($Source)).trim('\') |
 copy-item  -Destination "$($Destination.Trim('\'))\$TrimmedPath"
}

Upvotes: 0

alroc
alroc

Reputation: 28174

RoboCopy is a better solution here. See https://superuser.com/questions/482112/using-robocopy-and-excluding-multiple-directories

robocopy J:\All J:\Users\John\Desktop\my_backup /MIR /XD j:\all\videos

Upvotes: 3

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