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powershellpowershell-4.0
Călimanu Loredan
Călimanu Loredan

Reputation: 53

Powershell copy files from different directories

I have a script that copies the files from one server to another. I have basically 3 different server locations, that I want to copy from , and create on another server, a folder for each of the location from the source and the contents inside it. I made that, but I declared a variable for each source and each folder/destination. I want to create one variable, and from that it should automatically get each location of the source, and copy everything in the correct location. Would defining $server= "\path1 , \path2, \path3 " do it and it would go into a foreach loop? and go through each part of the path and copy and paste? If so, how can I define the destination if I have 1 folder with 3 subfolders each corresponding to one source. for example \path1 should alwasy put items in the path1destination , \path2 should always put items in the path2destination and so on. basically I want somehow to correlate that for each source path to have a specific path destination and everything should use as less variables as possible.

Anyone can provide and ideas on how to tackle this ? My code works but I had to define $path1 , $path2 , $path3 and so on, and then go for a loop on each, which is great but I need to make it clean and less lines of code . 



$server1 = "C:\Users\nicolae.calimanu\Documents\B\"
$server2 = "C:\Users\nicolae.calimanu\Documents\A\"  # UNC Path. 
$datetime = Get-Date -Format "MMddyyyy-HHmmss"
$server3 = "C:\Users\nicolae.calimanu\Documents\C\" # UNC Path. 
foreach ($server1 in gci $server1  -recurse)
{ 
  Copy-Item -Path $server1.FullName -Destination $server2
}

ForEach ( $server2 in $server2 ) {
 $curDateTime = Get-Date -Format yyyyMMdd-HHmmss
 Get-ChildItem $server2  -Recurse | 
 Rename-Item -NewName {$_.Basename + '_' + $curDateTime + $_.Extension }
}

foreach ($server2 in gci $server2 -Recurse)
{ 
  Move-Item -path $server2 -destination "C:\Users\nicolae.calimanu\Documents\C"
}

Upvotes: 0

Views: 347

Answers (1)

vonPryz
vonPryz

Reputation: 24071

Use a hashtable to create a key-value store for each source and destination. Like so,

# Create entries for each source and destination
$ht = @{}
$o = new-object PSObject -property @{ 
    from = "\\serverA\source"
    to = "\\serverB\destination" }
$ht.Add($o.from, $o) 

$o = new-object PSObject -property @{ 
    from = "\\serverC\source"
    to = "\\serverB\destination2" }
$ht.Add($o.from, $o) 

$o = new-object PSObject -property @{ 
    from = "\\servera\source2"
    to = "\\serverC\destination" }
$ht.Add($o.from, $o) 

# Iterate the collection. For demo, print the copy commands
foreach($server in $ht.keys) { $cmd = $("copy-item {0} {1}" -f $ht.Item($server).from, $ht.Item($server).to); $cmd }

# Sample output
copy-item \\serverA\source \\serverB\destination
copy-item \\servera\source2 \\serverC\destination
copy-item \\serverC\source \\serverB\destination2

Upvotes: 1

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