Question

Is there a way to replicate an xcopy functional using powershell?

I thought it was an easy question until I tried some cmdlets.

Let’s imagine I’ve got a folder structure like:

src

|-a

|-b

There’re files in each folder of course. I need to copy contents of Src to some folder Dst.

With xcopy it’d be like this:

xcopy src dst\ /e /y

PS analog would be something like this:

copy-item src dst\ -force -recurse -verbose

Works great… the first time. The second time it creates a subfolder dst\src and puts files there!

I can’t figure out any easy workaround. Can you?

p.s. I know I can use xcopy in PS.

Answer 1

copy-item c:\\src\\* c:\\dst -force -recurse -verbose