Daily Archives: July 17, 2018

Copies a set of files recursively and recreates subfolders and files in another location.

# Copy XML files from subfolders to another drive and create subfolders.

$SourcePath = 'G:\Prod\'
$TargetPath = 'E:\SQLScripts\'
$FileFilter = '*.xml'

Get-ChildItem $SourcePath -filter $FileFilter -recurse |
    ForEach-Object { 
        $targetFile = $TargetPath + $_.FullName.SubString($SourcePath.Length); 
        $DestFolder = Split-Path $targetFile
        if (-not (Test-Path $DestFolder)) {
            New-Item -ItemType Directory -Path $DestFolder #-WhatIf
        }

        Copy-Item $_.FullName -destination $targetFile #-WhatIf
}