Copy Multiple Sub-Folders

[enjay]

So, a load of our students have just sat an exam, and I want to copy a specific sub-folder out of each of their My Documents folders. The folder path is \\SERVER\Users\Exams\Name\Exam-XXXX-Work (where XXXX is their candidate number). Can anyone suggest a script which would trawl the "Exams" folder and copy all the Exam-XXXX-Work folders out into one folder, so I can burn them to disc? There's nearly 200 students, so I don't really fancy doing this manually...

[sted]

might be quicker to just sit ona pc that can access the parent folder and search then copy the results to where they are needed

[jinnantonnixx]

I've tried this Powershell on a basic test and it seems to work.

Get-ChildItem -Path "\\SERVER\Users\Exams" -Recurse | where {{$_.PSIsContainer} -and {{$_.Name -like "exams-*"} -and {$_.name -like "*-work"}}} | Copy-Item  -Destination "c:\temp" -Force -Recurse

Edited January 17, 2014 by jinnantonnixx
Updated - had a bug

[enjay]

might be quicker to just sit ona pc that can access the parent folder and search then copy the results to where they are needed

 

Of course. I didn't think about copying from a search results list. Sometimes it is the simple answers which evade us, isn't it. Thanks!