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

The exclude parameter won't work with dirs. A variant of Bo's script does the trick:

$source = 'c:\tmp\foo'
$dest = 'c:\temp\foo'
$exclude = '\.bak'
Get-ChildItem $source -Recurse  | where {$_.FullName -notmatch $exclude} | 
    Copy-Item -Destination {Join-Path $dest $_.FullName.Substring($source.length)}