Moving, renaming with range

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Hello everyone,

just started a few weeks ago with powershell so im pretty unknown to how everything works.

last week i was busy with the following script.

the scenario: i would like to copy certain file types from a folder and its subfolder to a created folder with todays date. that part i got that working :slight_smile: . for the next step there are 2 options 1: keep the duplicate file’s name and add -copy to it or 2: move all duplicate files to a folder withing the just created folder with todays date. it doenst really matter wich solution. after that i want a search range for example: in the directory C:.…\folder\ are more folder named user1, user 2, user 3 etc etc. i want to have a range that the script only searches in user1 til user 5, or only in user 20 til user 40.

i tried and tried and smashed my laptop a few times any help i really apreciated off course :slight_smile:

this is what i got

$destination  = "location to save"

$source = Get-ChildItem -Path "files where to look" -Filter "*.txt" -Recurse


$folderName = (Get-Date).tostring("dd-MM-yyyy")            
New-Item -itemType Directory -Path $destination -Name $FolderName

foreach ($file in $source) {

    Copy-Item -Path $file.FullName -Destination $destination$folderName
}

EDIT: removed $file_path

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Stefmeister,
Welcome to the forums.

What’s your actual question. The code looks like it should work actually. Except of - you’re creating a variable $file_path twice but you never use it.

You may use VSCode for developing your scripts. It would give you hints according to those errors.

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Hi olaf,

thank for your reply
about the $filepath
i got this code (partially) from the internet and when it worked (copy all txt from a folder including subfolders) i was happy and i didnt touch it cause: it worked.

thanks for your reply in the end i want 3 things, but for now, when everything is copied i want that duplicate filenames to be moved in a newly created folder named duplicate. so my question is that you or anyone else can edit my code above so that it works.

i hope it is clear now for this point.