{"id":3790,"date":"2013-04-19T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-19T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2013\/04\/19\/powertip-use-powershell-to-copy-files\/"},"modified":"2013-04-19T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-19T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-use-powershell-to-copy-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-use-powershell-to-copy-files\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Use PowerShell to Copy Files"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong style=\"font-size: 12px\">Summary<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 12px\">: Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to copy files from one location to another.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/q-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Question\" \/>&nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to copy a file to a new location?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/a-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Answer\" \/>&nbsp;Use the&nbsp;<strong>Copy-Item<\/strong>&nbsp;cmdlet and specify the path to the original file and a destination for the copy. In this example, file&nbsp;<strong>20110314.log<\/strong>&nbsp;in the&nbsp;<strong>C:\\fso<\/strong>&nbsp;folder is copied to folder&nbsp;<strong>C:\\fsox<\/strong>&nbsp;with the new name&nbsp;<strong>mylog.log<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px\"><strong>Note<\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The destination folder&nbsp;<strong>C:\\fsox<\/strong>&nbsp;must exist.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 150px\">Copy-Item -Path C:\\fso\\20110314.log -Destination c:\\fsox\\mylog.log<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to copy files from one location to another. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to copy a file to a new location? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Copy-Item&nbsp;cmdlet and specify the path to the original file and a destination for the copy. In this example, file&nbsp;20110314.log&nbsp;in the&nbsp;C:\\fso&nbsp;folder is copied to folder&nbsp;C:\\fsox&nbsp;with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[38,356,3,12,45],"class_list":["post-3790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-files","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-storage","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to copy files from one location to another. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to copy a file to a new location? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Copy-Item&nbsp;cmdlet and specify the path to the original file and a destination for the copy. In this example, file&nbsp;20110314.log&nbsp;in the&nbsp;C:\\fso&nbsp;folder is copied to folder&nbsp;C:\\fsox&nbsp;with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}