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tangokhi
tangokhi

Reputation: 1015

Powershell Copy-Item going up few directories

I am trying to provide a path to Copy-Item cmdlet in Powershell which goes up few directories but I am getting error

"ERROR - failed with error: "A positional parameter cannot be found that accepts argument '......\'."

The command I am trying to execute is

Copy-Item $Source + "..\..\..\" + ($environment) + "\*.config" $destination

Can anyone please guide me how can I go up few directories while providing a path to Copy-Item

Upvotes: 0

Views: 57

Answers (2)

tangokhi
tangokhi

Reputation: 1015

I just had to put double quotes around the whole path rather than concatenating. 

Copy-Item "$Source\..\..\..\$environment\*.config" $destination

Upvotes: 0

Martin Brandl
Martin Brandl

Reputation: 58931

You need to parenthese the first argument (source):

Copy-Item ($Source + "..\..\..\" + ($environment) + "\*.config") $destination

Consider using the Join-Path cmdlet when combining a path. You could also write something like:

$sourceDir = Join-Path (Get-Item $Source).Parent.Parent.Parent $environment
Get-ChildItem -Path $sourceDir -Filter '*.config' | Copy-Item -Destination $destination

Upvotes: 3

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