Powershell file copy example. Copy-Item code snippet

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Probably the first scheduled task you want to do is to periodically copy files from one location to another.
Here the small snippet how to do it in powershell:

   1: # defining log destination

   2: $dest ="C:\somedirectory" 

   3:  

   4: #Creating destination directory

   5: New-Item $dest -type directory -force 

   6:  

   7: #File to copy

   8: $iis ="D:\logs\iislog.log"

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  10: #Performing copy operation

  11: Copy-Item $iis $dest

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