I recently began switching over some of my command line tasks over to their PowerShell equivalents.
Of course, the Copy-Item cmdlet is the PowerShell replacement to xcopy or RoboCopy. https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh849793.aspx
Of course, the TechNet article provides the available switches and numerous examples, but does not provide a specific example for EXCLUDING FILES!!
When I had previously used robocopy, I had used the /XF switch to exclude files, however, I could not achieve the same result when using this PowerShell command:
Well, as it turns out, my $SourcePath variable needed to append a wildcard character to the end of the path in order for the Exclude switch to properly work as follows:
That was all that was needed to get my PowerShell script to work in the same way as RoboCopy!!
Of course, the Copy-Item cmdlet is the PowerShell replacement to xcopy or RoboCopy. https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh849793.aspx
Of course, the TechNet article provides the available switches and numerous examples, but does not provide a specific example for EXCLUDING FILES!!
When I had previously used robocopy, I had used the /XF switch to exclude files, however, I could not achieve the same result when using this PowerShell command:
$ExclusionFiles = @("packages.config", "connectionStrings.config") #Copy over the items Copy-Item -Path $SourcePath -Destination $DestinationPath -Exclude $ExclusionFiles -Recurse -Force
Well, as it turns out, my $SourcePath variable needed to append a wildcard character to the end of the path in order for the Exclude switch to properly work as follows:
$ExclusionFiles = @("packages.config", "connectionStrings.config") #Copy over the items Copy-Item -Path "$SourcePath\*" -Destination $DestinationPath -Exclude $ExclusionFiles -Recurse -Force
That was all that was needed to get my PowerShell script to work in the same way as RoboCopy!!
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