How to loop through directories in powershell and move the directories?

Question

I have a directory structure that looks like this :

Root
- Older

I want to parse all folders in root and move them the Older subfolder.

How can I do this?

Martin · Accepted Answer · 2016-07-13 09:53:45Z

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You can use get-childitem (gci) to get all childitems of the root-folder ($root), and move them (move-item) to the new destination. You just have to make sure, you will not move the destination itself, therefore we check that.

$root = "C:\temp\root"
$destination = "older"

gci $root | ? {$_.name -ne $destination} | move-item -Destination "C:\temp\root\$destination" -force

edited Jul 13, 2016 at 9:53

answered Jul 13, 2016 at 9:48

Martin

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2 Comments

JL. Over a year ago

How can I make it fail if the folder exists in the destination?

Martin Over a year ago

just cut of the -force Parameter in the move-item Statement and add an -erroraction silentlycontinue to avoid a red error message

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