Greeetings!
First post. Also, I'm new to Powershell. I found Piotrek82's script online and want to use it to help me find a particular set of files on all of my servers. If the files exist, I want them copied to a repository on my workstation and also prepended with the name of the server (so i know where it came from).
The script works great but only if the file name is static. However, the files I'm looking for all have their names varied a bit depending on what policy they're tied to (e.g. BPStart_Policy123.bat, BPStart_Policy456.bat, etc). There are dozens of policies.
So, in my oversimplistic brain, I thought I could just use a wildcard for the file name so that anything that starts with "bp" and is a .bat file will be copied to my repository...
Here is Piotrek82's script as modified for my use:
$servers = get-content "C:\Users\xxxx\Desktop\windows-servers-test.txt"
$filename = "bp*.bat"
foreach ($server in $servers)
{
$disks = "c$"
foreach ($disk in $disks)
{
$filepath = $Null
$filepath = get-childitem -path "\\$server\$disk\Program Files\Veritas\NetBackup\bin" -Recurse -Force -include $filename -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
if ($filepath)
{
$filepath.fullname
Copy-Item -literalPath $filepath.FullName -Destination "C:\Users\xxxx\Desktop\server\$server-$filename"
}
}
}
However, I get the error:
Copy-Item : Cannot bind argument to parameter 'LiteralPath' because it is null.
At C:\Users\xxxx\Documents\FindFilesOnServers.ps1:14 char:35
+ Copy-Item -literalPath <<<< $filepath.FullName -Destination "C:\Users\xxxx\Desktop\server\$server-$filename"
+ CategoryInfo : InvalidData: (:) [Copy-Item], ParameterBindingValidationException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : ParameterArgumentValidationErrorNullNotAllowed,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.CopyItemCommand
I'm sure this is laughably simple to you guys, but any help is greatly appreciated nonetheless. THANK YOU!