I'm blanking out on this one.
How can I copy files that only have an extension? (Windows 2008R2/Windows7)
Is Powershell my only route? Seems like there should be an easier way to do this.
- Edited by jlcg 14 hours 44 minutes ago
Copying Files while Excluding Files without an extension
January 11th, 2014 11:56pm
copy .* c:\test
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January 12th, 2014 12:13am
Reverse method:
PS C:\scripts> 1..12|%{$z=('?'*$_);dir $z}
Directory: C:\scripts
Mode LastWriteTime Length Name
---- ------------- ------ ----
-a--- 11/24/2013 6:20 AM 8 -1
d---- 9/25/2013 12:26 PM wf1
d---- 12/29/2013 9:46 AM wmi
d---- 8/26/2013 3:10 AM test
-a--- 9/9/2013 1:22 PM 0 dhcp
-a--- 9/9/2013 10:32 AM 87 True
-a--- 1/11/2014 4:24 PM 16 xxxx
d---- 12/28/2013 2:24 PM 43024
d---- 6/26/2013 7:22 AM test1
-a--- 12/12/2013 2:28 AM 7 query
d---- 9/2/2013 9:21 AM Rdios
d---- 8/13/2013 12:13 PM tester
d---- 11/28/2013 12:45 PM acltest
d---- 9/5/2013 7:58 AM doctest
d---- 10/4/2013 6:39 AM Outlook
-a--- 9/21/2013 10:24 AM 1713 popcorn
d---- 10/1/2013 12:21 AM Pictures
d---- 9/23/2013 12:41 AM PsTracker
d---- 6/22/2013 9:23 PM iTextSharp
d---- 9/21/2013 1:58 AM test space
-a--- 12/31/2013 9:40 AM 22509 Get-NTPTime
-a--- 9/3/2013 8:58 AM 832 Get-ArpTable
January 12th, 2014 12:29am
copy .* c:\test
January 12th, 2014 11:39pm
copy .* c:\test
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January 13th, 2014 12:31am
I would write that "How do I copy all files except those that do not have an extension.
The question was asked to exclusively different ways and I posted and answer to both versions as I understood that.
dir *|?{$_.Extension}
January 13th, 2014 12:44am
copy .* c:\test
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January 13th, 2014 4:12pm
Why do you want a list of files but only files that only have extensions? What problem is this solving for you?
Bill
January 13th, 2014 4:17pm
A pattern of *.* should work fine, as far as I know.
Get-ChildItem *.* -File
Edit: The -File switch requires at least PowerShell 3.0. If you're using PowerShell 2.0, you'd need to use the old technique of filtering with Where-Object:
Get-ChildItem *.* | Where-Object { -not $_.PSIsContainer }
- Edited by David Wyatt 14 hours 17 minutes ago
- Proposed as answer by Bill_StewartModerator 13 hours 50 minutes ago
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January 13th, 2014 4:20pm
Why do you want a list of files but only files that only have extensions? What problem is this solving for you?
Bill
Copying files from a CIFS share on one server to another location for backup purposes.
Basically, the files without a valid extension are massive and don't need to be backed up. Unfortunately, the original location is an appliance and the backup methodology (via NDMP) can't exclude by filenames since it doesn't look at that level, it sees everything as a Filesystem.
If I copy the files that do need to be backed up (anything with an extension) to a Windows Server then I can back up that location.
January 13th, 2014 4:27pm
See David Wyatt's last answer - *.* -file on PowerShell 3.0 or *.* | where-object { -not $_.PSIsContainer } for earlier versions.
Bill
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January 13th, 2014 4:47pm
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