I'm a PowerShell novice, and I'd love to be able to script this. I have a text file where each line is part of a file name without the path or extension. I'd like a one-liner that loops through each line of the file (with a gc – Get-Content, right?), takes the content of the line, constructs the source path (the network drive and extension are static), constructs a destination path, and then copies each file. My file content is like this:
12345678
98765432
32145698
12365782
And my source folder is a UNC path like this:
\\server\share
And my destination folder is:
c:\temp\files
I would like to do the equivalent of this DOS command, using $_
as the text from each line of the file:
copy \\server\share\$_.ext c:\temp\files\$_.ext
I'm pretty sure I can use gc
and $_
to access each line of the file, and that I need to use cp
to copy the files, but I'm having trouble constructing the source and destination file names.
Best Answer
Try the following
It can actually be done on one line but it looks better formmated as multiple lines for this answer :)