How do I move files and folders to a parent folder in Power Shell?-CodePudding

I got a list of directories like this:

root
|
 - dist
      | 
       _ fileA.js
       _ fileB.js
       _ folder1
              | 
               _ file1a.js
       _ folder2
              | 
               _ file2a.js
               _ folderb
                 | 
               _ file2ba.js

And I want to move the content of dist into the root folder, like this:

root
|
    _ fileA.js
    _ fileB.js
    _ folder1
           | 
            _ file1a.js
    _ folder2
           | 
            _ file2a.js
            _ folderb
               | 
                _ file2ba.js

I tried:

$logfiles = Get-ChildItem $(System.ArtifactsDirectory)/dist/custom -Recurse -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue | Where-Object { $_.Name -like '**/*.*' } | Select-Object FullName
ForEach ($logfile in $logfiles.FullName) {Copy-Item $logfile -Destination "$(System.ArtifactsDirectory)"}

But it didn't work.

CodePudding user response：

In PowerShell prompt, go to dist folder, and run the following code:

$source = 'root\dist'
$destination = 'root\'

Get-ChildItem $source -Recurse | ForEach-Object {
    $newPath = $_.FullName -Replace [regex]::Escape($source), $destination
    Move-Item $_ -Destination $newPath -Force
}

The above code uses Get-ChildItem to recursively fetch all the files/folders from source folder, and then Move-Item puts each item in the destination folder in exactly the same hierarchy as it was in the source folder.

CodePudding user response：

Much quicker would be to use robocopy for this:

robocopy X:\root\dist X:\root /S /Move