Hello I have over 15K PDF files Saved in a folder Z:\PDF Archive\2010
and need better organization. I have no idea how to do this but what I would like to see happen is: If the file name is 8757854.pdf
I would like to create (if it does not already exist) directory Z:\PDF Archive\8700000-8799999\8750000-8759999\
and Copy the file into it.
Most file names are 7 digits but there are some that are only 6, in that situation, I would like to have a 0 added to the beginning of the file name.
So if the file name is 757854.pdf then this would be the file path: Z:\PDF Archive\0700000-0799999\0750000-0759999\
Thoughts and Ideas would be very appreciated! Thank you in Advance!
Try the following:
# Input and output (root) directory paths.
$inPath = 'Z:\PDF Archive\2010'
$outPathRoot = 'Z:\PDF Archive'
# The max. number of digits in the input file names.
$maxDigits = 7
Get-ChildItem -LiteralPath $inPath -Filter *.pdf | ForEach-Object {
# Left-pad the number string that constitutes the base file name
# with zeros to ensure a length of 7.
$paddedNum = $_.BaseName.PadLeft($maxDigits, '0')
# Construct the name of the subdirectories to copy the files to,
# replacing the digits after the leading 2 and 3 digits first with "0" and "9",
# respectively, joining the resulting strings with "-"
$subDirs =
foreach ($leadingDigits in $paddedNum.Substring(0, 2), $paddedNum.Substring(0, 3)) {
($leadingDigits + '0' * ($maxDigits - $leadingDigits.Length)),
($leadingDigits + '9' * ($maxDigits - $leadingDigits.Length)) -join '-'
}
# Create the output subdirectories, if necessary.
# -Force both creates parent directories on demand and
# quietly returns an existing directory, if present.
$targetDir = New-Item -Type Directory -Force ($outPathRoot + '\' + ($subDirs -join '\'))
# Copy the PDF file at hand to the target subdirectory.
$_ | Copy-Item -Destination $targetDir.FullName
}
Note: If you add the -WhatIf common parameter to the Copy-Item command, you'll get a preview of the copy operations, which will include the full target path.