Powershell moving multiple folders from a directory to another folder

Question

_{Tuesday, October 23, 2018 6:30 PM}

Hello,

We have a huge amount of employee folders and I have a list.txt file with specific file paths of employees who are not with the company. Is there a way with powershell to move all these folders into another path? I was able to move items with the move-item command, but that's only one folder. I'd like to see if there's a way to move specific folders in that directory to another directory. Thank you

All replies (2)

_{Wednesday, October 24, 2018 12:51 AM}

Given a list.txt file with these sample lines:

c:\temp\employees\dave
c:\TEMP\employees\bob

A simple script would be:

get-content list.txt |%{
    $Destination = $_ -replace 'c:\temp\employees', 'c:\temp\non-employees'     # first string must use \ because of regex.
    "Moving $_ to $Destination"
    move-item -path "$_" -destination "$Destination"
} 

It would output:

Moving c:\temp\employees\dave to c:\temp\non-employees\dave
Moving c:\TEMP\employees\bob to c:\temp\non-employees\bob

_{Wednesday, October 24, 2018 2:08 AM}

Hi,

I agree with Moto.

You can use get-content cmdlet to get employee folder path. Then use foreach-object cmdlet to move these folders to another directory in a loop.

Refer the link below:

/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft.powershell.core/foreach-object?view=powershell-6

/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft.powershell.management/move-item?view=powershell-6

Best Regadrs,

Lee

Just do it.