Powershell Script to copy files based on date modifed to check newest file from a remote location

Question

I am new to powershell scripting and i cant figure out why my script copies all files and doesn't seem to check the date and then copies all the files anyway. I was trying to do by days and minutes too, but I am not quite sure on how to do that. any help would be great!

see my script below.

$RemotePath = "\\eb-pc\E$\testlocation\*.txt"
$LocalPath = "C:\testlocation"
$Max_days = "-1"
#Max_mins = "-5"
$Curr_date = get-date

#Checking date and then copying file from RemotePath to LocalPath
Foreach($file in (Get-ChildItem $RemotePath))
{
    if($file.LastWriteTime -gt ($Curr_date).adddays($Max_days))
    {
        Copy-Item -Path $file.fullname -Destination $LocalPath
        #Move-Item -Path $file.fullname -Destination $LocalPath
    }

}

Answer 1

If you want to use Hours and minutes, instead of AddDays, just use the .AddMinutes(), .AddHours(), or .AddSeconds() methods instead.

For what it's worth, I made a small modifcation, adding an Else{Scriptblock} to the script to echo out the files which aren't being copied. As written your code will only copy files written in the last 24 hours.

$RemotePath = "t:\"
$LocalPath = "C:\temp"
$Max_days = "-1"
#Max_mins = "-5"
$Curr_date = get-date

#Checking date and then copying file from RemotePath to LocalPath
Foreach($file in (Get-ChildItem $RemotePath))
{
    if($file.LastWriteTime -gt ($Curr_date).adddays($Max_days))
    {

        Copy-Item -Path $file.fullname -Destination $LocalPath -WhatIf
        #Move-Item -Path $file.fullname -Destination $LocalPath
    }
    ELSE
    {"not copying $file"
    }

}

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