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PandaPoodle
Feb 06, 2022Copper Contributor
Copy a file and send that copy via email on a loop
Hi, I was just wondering if there is a way to copy a .txt file to a specific destination and then send that copy via email on a loop that runs every hour or so? I've tried to do it but have had no luck.
Some error handling and checking 🙂
function Test-FileLock { param ( [parameter(Mandatory = $true)][string]$Path ) $oFile = New-Object System.IO.FileInfo $Path if ((Test-Path -Path $Path) -eq $false) { return $false } try { $oStream = $oFile.Open([System.IO.FileMode]::Open, [System.IO.FileAccess]::ReadWrite, [System.IO.FileShare]::None) if ($oStream) { $oStream.Close() } $false } catch { # file is locked by a process. return $true } } while ($true) { #Copying file to other location but checking if it's in use first if ((Test-Filelock -path d:\backup\filename.txt) -eq $False) { Copy-Item -Path c:\temp\filename.txt -Destination d:\backup -Force:$true #Sending mail with the file Send-MailMessage -SmtpServer smtp.domain.local -port 25 -Subject "Emailing the file" -Body "See attached file" -Attachments d:\backup\filename.txt -To "Email address removed" -From "Email address removed" } #Wait for 1 hour Start-Sleep -Seconds 3600 }
- And what do you have so far? You can copy files using copy-item and send an email using send-mailmessage with an attachment that contains that file. You can use a Task Schedule to run the script every hour or only once running a while ($true) {script contents with a start-sleep -seconds 3600} in it?
- PandaPoodleCopper ContributorSo I’m very new to Powershell, so what I did was run a script that would copy the file to another file every so often. And I ran another instance of powershell that emailed that copy every so often. But they won’t run at the same time. If the copy script is running the email script won’t work. Is there a way I can have both of those tasks run in one script? Again I’m very new to powershell which is probably why I’m having such a hard time with this.
- And you can schedule this and keep it running forever 🙂 Did this work for you?