#copy-item

Copy-Item: Copying Files like a Boss in PowerShell

Copying files. It’s not sexy but has to be done. In the GUI, we copy and paste with the clipboard but in PowerShell we have a cmdlet called Copy-Item.

Commands for copying files have been around forever in all shell languages. In PowerShell land, the most popular way to get a copy of a file or folder in your PowerShell script from point A to point B is by using the PowerShell Copy-Itemcmdlet.…

Copying Files Over a PSSession

Copying Files Over a PSSession

I recently bought a Raspberry Pi 3, and now that it’s running Windows IoT Core, I wanted to make it do something. So I wrote a basic UWP App and I was looking for a way to deploy it to the device. Luckily, WinRM is enabled on Windows IoT Core. This allowed me to use PowerShell to remote into the device and copy my EXE.

$ip = "192.160.0.100" $PWord =…

Why File Copies Through WinRM is Awesome

When it was announced that Copy-Item would get -ToSession  and -FromSession  parameters I originally just blew it off. I thought to myself why would I ever need that? Why not just use SMB? It works. Why do we need a way to pass files to and from PS sessions? It wasn’t until I came across a real-world scenario that finally made the light bulb come on.

I’ve been working on a project that requires…

Here is a simple one I had to use today. Only thing missing is that it does not create the directories needed at the destination, it fails if it doesn't exist. Easy to add with test-path within the IF part.