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Tyrone Hirt
Tyrone Hirt

Reputation: 341

PowerShell - Print Move-Item in Console

I have the following code:

        $SchoolFolder = "C:\Users\MyUser\Desktop\School Folder\$StudentName\$Month. $MonthWrite\$Day. $DayWrite"
        $MP4Lenght = (Get-ChildItem -Path $RenderFolder).Length -ne "0"
        $MP4existsToCopy = Test-Path -Path "$RenderFolder\*.mp4"
        If (($MP4existsToCopy -eq $True) -and ($MP4Lenght -eq $True)) {
        Get-ChildItem $MyFolder | 
                Where-Object { $_.Length -gt 0KB} |
                Move-Item -Destination (new-item -type directory -force ($SchoolFolder + $newSub)) -force -ea 0
        Write-Host "Done!"
        }

I would like to know how do I make all correspondence in $MP4Lenght be printed in the console with the format $MP4Lenght + "was moved", because that way I can know which files were moved.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 182

Answers (3)

Tyrone Hirt
Tyrone Hirt

Reputation: 341

Final script:

    $StudentName = Tyler
    $RenderFolder = "C:\Users\MyUser\Desktop\Render"
    $MP4existsToCopy = Get-ChildItem $RenderFolder -File | where-object {$_.Length -ne 0}
    $SchoolFolder = "C:\Users\MyUser\Desktop\School Folder\$StudentName\$Month. $MonthWrite\$Day. $DayWrite"
    
    foreach ($file in $MP4existsToCopy) {
    
    Move-Item $file.FullName -Destination (new-item -type directory -force ($SchoolFolder)) # new-item - Serves to create the folder if it does not exist
    
    if (-not(Test-Path $file.FullName) -and (test-path (Join-Path -Path $SchoolFolder -ChildPath $file.Name))) {
        Write-Host "$($file.name) was moved!"
    }

Upvotes: 0

postanote
postanote

Reputation: 16096

Why not just use -verbose?

Move-Item -Destination (new-item -type directory -force ($SchoolFolder + $newSub)) -force -ea 0 -Verbose

Update as per your comment.

Try it this way...

$source      = 'C:\Users\myuser\playground\powershell\Source\'
$destination = 'C:\Users\myuser\playground\powershell\Destination'

Get-ChildItem $source -File | 
where-object {$PSItem.Length -ne 0} | 
ForEach-Object{
    Move-Item $PSItem.FullName -Destination '.\Destination'

    if (-not(Test-Path $PSItem.FullName) -and (test-path (Join-Path -Path $destination -ChildPath $PSItem.Name))) {
        "$($PSItem.name) has moved"
    }
}

Upvotes: 1

Tim Aitken
Tim Aitken

Reputation: 186

Your "exist to copy" logic isn't really required, because if the file doesn't exist then get-childitem is not going to find it. Similarly with the check if MP4lenght is true.

The following will check if the file does not exist in the source and does exist in the destination and if that is true then write to the host that the file has moved:

$source = 'C:\Users\myuser\playground\powershell\Source\'
$destination = 'C:\Users\myuser\playground\powershell\Destination'
$files = Get-ChildItem $source -File | where-object {$_.Length -ne 0}

foreach ($file in $files) {

Move-Item $file.FullName -Destination .\Destination

if (-not(Test-Path $file.FullName) -and (test-path (Join-Path -Path $destination -ChildPath $file.Name))) {
    Write-Host "$($file.name) has moved"
}

}

Upvotes: 1

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