Question

I have this bit of powershell script but i can’t get the $DirectoryName to behave as expected.

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foreach { 
    $count = $_; 
    $x = gci -Path \\myserver-web$count\d$\IISLogs\ -include *.log -recurse

    $x | Copy-Item -Destination D:\ServerLogsAndBackups\IIS\w$count\$_.DirectoryName_$_.Name -whatIf
}

When I run this though I get

What if: Performing operation “Copy File” on Target “Item: \myserver-web1\d$\IISLogs\W3SVC1165836668\ex101224.log Destination: D:\ServerLogsAndBackups\IIS\w1\1.DirectoryName_1.Name”.

What I want it to be is

W3SVC1165836668_ex101206.log

where my directory structure is like:

\\myserver-web1\d$\IISLogs\W3SVC1165836668
\\myserver-web1\d$\IISLogs\W3SVC1165837451
\\myserver-web1\d$\IISLogs\W3SVC1165836966
\\myserver-web1\d$\IISLogs\W3SVC1165812365

with files called ex101206.log in each folder

Cheers

Answer 1

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foreach { 
    $count = $_;
    gci -Path \\myserver-web$count\d$\IISLogs\ -include *.log -recurse | % { $dirName = $_.directoryname.Substring($_.directoryname.LastIndexOf("\")+1); $logname = $_.Name; $_ | Copy-Item -Destination $("D:\ServerLogsAndBackups\IIS\w"+$count+"\"+$dirname+"_"+$logName) -whatif }
}