Copy file with certain name into a new folder

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I have a powershell script that will search through the sub folders of a directory and copy any files that contain a specific string in the name and then move those into a different folder that it creates. The problem I am having is that the script is not creating and new folder but just a new file without an extension. Here is my script.

 Get-ChildItem -Path 'C:\users\user1\Documents\q3\' -Recurse | Where-Object { $_.Name -like "*test2*" -and $_.FullName -notmatch 'newfolder' } | Copy-Item -Destination 'C:\Users\user1\Documents\Q3\test'

The searching works how I want it to. The problem is that powershell is not creating the 'test' folder. If that folder already exists then there is no problem. I just want powershell to create that folder instead of me having to do it each time. — ThisGuyUsesPowershell
– ThisGuyUsesPowershell, Commented Jan 13, 2020 at 15:24
you're going to want to add if{-not (test-path $folder_path)}(mkdir $folder_path) or similar to the script beginning. test for the path of the folder, make it if it isn't there already, then continue. — HelpfulHound
– HelpfulHound, Commented Jan 13, 2020 at 15:35

JimShapedCoding · Accepted Answer · 2020-01-13 15:51:23Z

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There is no parameter with a behavior like: "createifnotexist" for directories in powershell's copy-item() function. (I'm using powershell 5.1 and could not find one)

This is a way to achieve your goal with a one liner

New-Item -ItemType Directory -Name "test" -Path 'C:\Users\user1\Documents\Q3' -Force; Get-ChildItem -Path 'C:\users\user1\Documents\q3\' -Recurse | Where-Object { $_.Name -like "*test2*" -and $_.FullName -notmatch 'newfolder' } | % { Copy-Item -Path "C:\Users\user1\Documents\Q3\test\"}

The New-Item will override the latest created folder with the -Force

edited Jan 13, 2020 at 15:51

answered Jan 13, 2020 at 15:26

JimShapedCoding

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