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I’m trying to make a script that creates folders based on today’s date and moves text files from a folder from the day before.

09/24/2018 text files would go into 09/25/2018

<I have something that looks like this so far, it works kinda>

clear

$old = “C:\temp\2018\09-24-20”

if (Test-Path $old)
{
echo “File exists”
}
else
{
New-Item -ItemType Directory -Path “C:\temp\2018\09$((Get-Date).ToString(‘dd’))” -force

}

clear

$new = “C:\Temp\2018\09-24*.txt”

if (Test-Path $new)
{
Get-ChildItem -Path “C:\temp\2018\09\24*.txt” -Recurse | Move-Item -Destination "C:\temp\2018\09\24"
}

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2

Try this

$yesterday=(get-date).AddDays(-1).ToString('MM-dd-yyyy')
Move-Item c:\files -Destination c:\folder\$yesterday
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Am i supposed to just use that code or add it to my existing?

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I suspect he’s given you a solution.

The command:

(Get-Date).AddDays(-1).ToString('MM-dd-yyyy')

produces a date string (“09-24-2018”). I am assuming that that’s the folder name you want to add.

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No, I want to add text files from that folder.

move-item “C:\temp\2018\09\24\test.txt” -destination “C:\temp\2018\09\25”

Then the batch would keep taking the file from the day before and move it to the current day. It’ll be a batch file set to run on a task sequence.

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Something like this then?

$Yesterday = (Get-Date).AddDays(-1).ToString('dd')
$Today = (Get-Date).ToString('dd')
New-Item -ItemType Directory C:\temp\2018\09\$Today
Move-Item C:\temp\2018\09\$Yesterday\* -Destination C:\Temp\2018\09\$Today

Seems like an interesting way to do something like this but this should do what you’re looking for.

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Yes, something like that. I’ll try it out and vote the best answer.

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Thanks titus. It works in my environment.

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