Question

Using the following code to select help select 1 file from a list of many dated files and then copy to share. Using the following code very kindly provided by fellow Stacker

$pastdays = -7

$pastdate = [datetime]::Now.AddDays($pastdays)

$files = Get-ChildItem "V:\Capacity Manager Size reports\"

$filename = ($files | Where-Object {$_.Name -like "Database_Server1_Userdb1_" + $pastdate.Day  + "_" + $pastdate.Month + "_" + $pastdate.Year+ "*.pdf"})

Copy-Item -Path $filename.FullName "\\Server50\report_Archive"

I need to expand this process to run for many files in the folder – each with slightly different names but following a common template to the file name

Original filenames examples:

Database_Server1_UserDB1_30_10_2012_00_20_51
Database_Server2_UserDB2_30_10_2012_01_20_51

Etc

Etc

But im not sure how to best do this in a foreach ?

I was thinking create a template file to load into a variable that holds all the examples of the files to examined before copying

So:

$Report_Template = Get-Content "C:\Powershell\FileTemplate_Name.txt";

FileTemplate_name.txt:

Database_Server1_tempdb_

Database_Server1_UserDB1_

Database_Server1_UserDB2_

Database_Server2_UserDB2_

Database_Server2_UserDB4_


$Report_Template = Get-Content "C:\Powershell\QCM_Template_Name.txt";

$pastdays = -7

$pastdate = [datetime]::Now.AddDays($pastdays)

$files = Get-ChildItem "V:\Capacity Manager Size reports\"

foreach($template in $Report_Template)

$filename = ($files | Where-Object {$_.Name -like $template + $pastdate.Day  + "_" + $pastdate.Month + "_" + $pastdate.Year+ "*.pdf"})

Copy-Item -Path $filename.FullName "\\Server50\CapacityManagerReports_Archive\"

Answer 1

Ive done the following which seems to work

$Report_Template = Get-Content "C:\Powershell\QCM_Template_Name.txt";
$pastdays = -3
$pastdate = [datetime]::Now.AddDays($pastdays)
$Results = Get-ChildItem "V:\Capacity Manager Size reports\"
Foreach ($Files in $Results)
{foreach($template in $Report_Template)
 {If ($files.Name -like $($template + $pastdate.Day + "_" + $pastdate.Month + "_" + $pastdate.Year +"*.pdf"))
  {Copy-Item -Path $files.FullName "\\Server50\CapacityManagerReports_Archive\"}
 }
}