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_OSD_
Copper Contributor
Nov 26, 2020

PowerShell to find and copy a file with wildcard

Hi,

I need to copy a file which is located under a dynamically created subdirectory.

Directory: C:\Users\StandardUser\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\dynamically-created-directory\myDesiredFile.sqlite

$SourceDir ="C:\Users\StandardUser\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles"
$DestinationDir = "C:\FireFox\"

# Wildecard for filter
$FileNameAndExtension = "places.sqlite"

# Copy File
Copy-Item $SourceDir $DestinationDir -Filter $FileNameAndExtension -Recurse

Problem: using the above PS settings, I am getting whole *PROFILE* ddirectory but I want to copy only file as defined in FileNameAndExtension variable ... possible?

 

 

 

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  • NZScottie's avatar
    NZScottie
    Copper Contributor
    Dec 12, 2020

    _OSD_  I would try something like the code below, assuming there are multiple profile directories and you want to replicate that in the destination directory.

     

    $SourceDir = 'C:\Users\StandardUser\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles'
$DestinationDir = 'C:\FireFox\'
$FileNameAndExtension = 'places.sqlite'

$SQLiteFiles = Get-ChildItem -Path "$SourceDir*\$FileNameAndExtension"

foreach($SQLiteFile in $SQLiteFiles){
    
    $ParentFolder = $SQLiteFile.Directory -replace [regex]::Escape("$SourceDir")

    New-Item -ItemType Directory -Name "$DestinationDir$ParentFolder"
    Copy-Item -Path $SQLiteFile -Destination "$DestinationDir$ParentFolder"

}

     

    Hopefullly I have understood what you were after. 😉

     

  • farismalaeb's avatar
    farismalaeb
    Steel Contributor
    Dec 01, 2020

    _OSD_ 

    Hi

    You can use the following command

    You can use Join-Path to build the path and include the random folder

    $x=join-path ('C:\Users\Faris\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles') -ChildPath (Get-childItem -Path 'C:\Users\Faris\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles')[0]

    Please note that this will fetch the first directory, if there are multiple directories then you need to build small criteria to define which one to retrieve.

     

     

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