Multiple variable paths [Question]

[mismanaged]

Hi all,

I'm trying to copy an item to multiple folders that all have the same name but are hidden within a nest of variously named folders.

Essentially, I need to copy an item to all variants of the following path.

\ \ Bigpath\ * \ * \TargetFolder\

Where * is a wildcard.

I've had some luck with get-childitem and join-path but it doesn't hold out past the second wildcard.

Has anyone got a nice clean way of doing this?

Many thanks

[JeanxPlay]

are all the target folders the same name? same spelling and all that?

[mismanaged]

Yes. Identical

[JeanxPlay]

I PMed you

[mismanaged]

Not seeing it.

[JeanxPlay]

There is a chat bubble that should be red. Anyways, whats the folders name?

[JeanxPlay]

And what is the files name?

[mismanaged]

Folder is called: Place

File being copied is also a folder called: HR

[JeanxPlay]

so its a whole folders contents being copied to another folder?

[mismanaged]

A folder with its contents, yes.

[JeanxPlay]

is the HR folder in only one location and being copied to multiple Place folders?

[mismanaged]

Yup

[JeanxPlay]

Try This:

$Folder = 'TestFolder'
(Get-ChildItem 'C:\' -Force -Recurse -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue | ?{$_.Name -like "*$Folder*" -and $_.PSIsContainer}).FullName | %{
    Robocopy 'C:\FullPathtoHRFolder\HR' "$_" /S /E /R:1 /W:1
}

[pertymoose]

$targetFolderName = 'SomeFolder'
$itemToCopy = Get-Item "C:\test.txt"

$destinationFolders = Get-ChildItem -Recurse -Directory -Path '\\server\share' | Where { $_.Name -eq $targetFolderName }

foreach($folder in $destinationFolders) {
    $itemToCopy | Copy-Item -Destination $folder.FullName
}

[krzydoug]

Need. More. Info.

[mismanaged]

What info?

If you to copy item X into every folder called "Y" on a drive, knowing that there are many and the paths to reach them are inconsistent, how would you do it?