Exclude list in PowerShell Copy-Item does not appear to be working

Question

I have the following snippet of PowerShell script:

$source = \'d:\\t1\\*\'
$dest = \'d:\\t2\'
$exclude = @(\'*.pdb\',\'*.config\')
Copy-Item $source $dest -R         


        

Answer 1

I had this problem, too, and spent 20 minutes with applying the solutions here, but kept having problems.
So I chose to use robocopy - OK, it's not powershell, but should be available everywhere where powershell runs.

And it worked right out of the box:

robocopy $source $dest /S /XF  /XD 

e.g.

robocopy $source $dest /S /XF *.csproj /XD obj Properties Controllers Models

Plus, it has tons of features, like resumable copy. Docs here.