Copy File directly or rename dest file if exist and copy file

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posted by Sylvain LESIRE

01-29-2009

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Copy File directly or rename dest file if exist and copy file

function CopyFileToFolder ([string]$Source,[string]$destination){ 
# get filename 
$filename = $source.substring($source.lastindexofany("\") +1 ,$source.length - ($source.lastindexofany("\")+1)) 
# verify if file exists 
if (Test-Path $destination$file) { 
    $ext = Get-Date -format 'yyMMddhhmmss' 
    Rename-Item $destination$filename $ext"."$filename 
} 
Copy-Item $source $destination 
} 
 
$sourcefilepath = "P:\powershell Script\Orginal\test.txt" 
$destinationpath = "P:\powershell Script\destinationDir\" 
copyFiletoFolder $sourcefilepath $destinationpath 

This function permits to copy file to an other directory.

If a file exists with same filename, it will rename the orginal file by using date and copy file to destination.

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Sylvain LESIRE wrote re: Copy File directly or rename dest file if exist and copy file

on 01-29-2009 5:17 PM

Error line5, please replace by

if (Test-Path $destination$filename) {

Colin Smith wrote re: Copy File directly or rename dest file if exist and copy file

on 02-18-2009 4:07 PM

Nice. I just wrote a similar script. I had it rename the existing file at the destination with a datestamp and also since I was copying to multiple remote servers I implemented a ping test. File copy only happens if server is available.