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I am trying to copy content of a folder, but there are two files which I would like to exclude. The rest of all the content should be copied to a new location and existing content on that new location should be overwritten.
This is my script. It works fine if my destination folder is empty, but if I have files and folder, it doesn't overwrite them.
$copyAdmin = $unzipAdmin + "/Content/*" $exclude = @('Web.config','Deploy') Copy-Item -Path $copyAdmin -Destination $AdminPath -Exclude $exclude -Recurse -force 
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By default, when you will copy item in PowerShell using the Copy-Item, it will overwrite the files in the destination folder. The above PowerShell script will overwrite the files but it will show an error for folders: Copy-Item : An item with the specified name D:\Bijay\Destination\Folder1 already exists.
Usually, when you run a cp command, it overwrites the destination file(s) or directory as shown. To run cp in interactive mode so that it prompts you before overwriting an existing file or directory, use the -i flag as shown.
To overwrite an existing file, use the –Force switch parameter.
After Get-Content reads the file and passes the string to the replace operator, PowerShell then hands off that new string to Set-Content, which takes that string as pipeline input and overwrites the existing file. Voila!
As I understand Copy-Item -Exclude then you are doing it correct. What I usually do, get 1'st, and then do after, so what about using Get-Item as in
Get-Item -Path $copyAdmin -Exclude $exclude | Copy-Item -Path $copyAdmin -Destination $AdminPath -Recurse -force Robocopy is designed for reliable copying with many copy options, file selection restart, etc.
/xf to excludes files and /e for subdirectories:
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