Remove percentages from robocopy log

Question

I'm using an older version of robocopy that includes percentages in the log even if the /NJH and /NJS paramters are set. So I'd like to remove the percentages from the log:

            72880735    H:\1.txt
100%  
            33038490    H:\10.txt
100%  
            64878348    H:\2.txt
100%  
            25875810    H:\3.txt
  0%  
100%  

I've tried with

(Get-Content $logfile) | Where-Object {
    $_ -match '[\s](\d{1,})(\s+)(\w\W\W.+)'
} | Set-Content $logfile

But that results in

            72880735    H:\1.txt
            33038490    H:\10.txt 
            64878348    H:\2.txt
            25875810    H:\3.txt
  0%  

So I get the 100%'s stripped out, but not the 0%.

Answer 1

/njh and /njs have nothing to do with the percentage information. You need to suppress progress output by adding the option /np to your robocopy commandline.

From the documentation:

/np Specifies that the progress of the copying operation (the number of files or directories copied so far) will not be displayed.

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Edit: After taking a look at your actual commandline it looks like /np is not compatible with /mt. Adding the latter parameter makes robocopy display progress output even if /np is present. If you don't require running multi-threaded I'd remove that parameter (add /ndl to prevent directories from appearing in the output).

I would also recommend using splatting instead of putting the parameter list into a single string:

$params = $src, $dest, ('/LOG:"{0}"' -f $logpath), '/L', '/NP', '/NC', '/BYTES',
          '/NJH', '/NJS', '/NDL', '/E', '/MOVE', '/XC', '/XN', '/XO', '/XD',
          $excludedFoldersList

& robocopy @params

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If for some reason you must use multi-threading you should be able to remove progress information from the log after completion like this:

(Get-Content $logpath) | Where-Object {
    $_ -notmatch '^\s*\d{1,3}%\s*$'
} | Set-Content $logpath