You can use the break statement with both the While loop and the Do-While loop.To use the Break with a while loop, see the example below.Example$i = 1 While($i -ne 10){    Write-Output $i    if($i -eq 5){break}    $i++ }Output1 2 3 4 5In the above example, the loop terminates when the value of the variable $i reaches 5 because the Break statement is executed.You can also use the break in the nested While loop, here we will take two examples of the nested loop. First when the break is placed outer loop and second when the break is placed in the inner ... Read More

The break statement in PowerShell is useful for terminating the loop. When the break statement is executed inside the inner loop, it terminates that particular loop execution and when it is placed in the outer loop, it terminates the entire loop including child loop(s).Break statement is used with Foreach, For, While, Do-While and the Switch statement. When the break statement is used with the Label, PowerShell executes the label loop instead of exiting from the loop.Break Statement example$i = 1 While($i -ne 10){    Write-Output $i    if($i -eq 5){break}    $i++ }Output1 2 3 4 5In the above example, the loop terminates when ... Read More

To copy files or folders to or from the remote location, you need to provide the UNC path of the items. For example, here we are going to copy a file from the local computer to a remote computer called Test-PC.Copy-Item D:\Temp\PowerShellcommands.csv -Destination \Test- PC\Sharedpath\PScommands.ps1 -PassThruHere, file PowerShellcommands.csv is copied to the remote computer and renamed it with PSCommands.ps1You can also copy files from the one shared location to another shared location.For example, Copy-Item \Test-PC1\D$\PowerShellcommands.csv -Destination \Test- PC\Sharedpath\PScommands.ps1 -PassThruThere is another way to copy items to the remote location is, you can use the ToSession parameter. To use the ToSesssion ... Read More

To copy the files with the specific extension, you need to use the Get-ChildItem command. Through the Get-ChildItem you first need to retrieve the files with the specific extension(s) and then you need to pipeline Copy-Item command.Here, we need to copy *.txt files from the source to the destination location.First, we will retrieve all the *.txt files available in the source path.ExampleGet-ChildItem D:\Temp\ -Filter *.txtOutputPS C:\WINDOWS\system32> Get-ChildItem D:\Temp\ -Filter *.txt     Directory: D:\Temp Mode                LastWriteTime         Length Name ----                -------------     ... Read More

To copy the readonly and hidden items from one location to another, you need to use the –Force parameter with Copy-Item cmdlet.When you run the command without Force parameter for the readonly/hidden files, you will get the error. An example is given below.ExampleCopy-Item D:\Temp\Readonlyfile.txt -Destination D:\TempContent\OutputPS C:\WINDOWS\system32> Copy-Item D:\Temp\Readonlyfile.txt -Destination D:\TempContent\ Copy-Item : Access to the path 'D:\TempContent\Readonlyfile.txt' is denied. At line:1 char:1 + Copy-Item D:\Temp\Readonlyfile.txt -Destination D:\TempContent\ + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~    + CategoryInfo : PermissionDenied: (D:\Temp\Readonlyfile.txt:FileInfo) [Copy-Item], UnauthorizedAccessException    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : CopyFileInfoItemUnauthorizedAccessError, Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.CopyItemCommandWhen you add the –Force parameter in the cmdlet, it can copy the readonly/ hidden files as ... Read More

To copy the contents of the folder to the destination folder in PowerShell, you need to provide the source and destination path of the folder, but need to make sure that you need to use a wildcard (*) character after the source path, so the entire folder content gets copied.If you provide only source folder without (*), only folder name gets copied without its contents. We also need to make sure both source and destination folder exists.ExampleCopy-Item -Path D:\Temp\ -Destination D:\TempContent -PassThruOutputWhen you use the above command, you will see the output will be none, because there is no (*) ... Read More

To copy the multiple files in PowerShell, you need to separate each file with the comma (,).In the below example, we will copy multiple files from the source to the destination folder D:\TempContent.ExampleCopy-Item .\PowerShellcommands.csv,.\cars.xml -Destination D:\TempContent\ -PassThruOutputPS D:\Temp> Copy-Item .\PowerShellcommands.csv,.\cars.xml -Destination D:\TempContent\ -PassThru     Directory: D:\TempContent Mode                LastWriteTime         Length Name ----                -------------         ------ ---- -a----       20-01-2020     12:10        1148809 PowerShellcommands.csv -a----       07-05-2018     23:00            301 cars.xml

To copy items in PowerShell, one needs to use the Copy-Item cmdlet. When you use the Copy-Item, you need to provide the source file name and the destination file or folder name.In the below example, we will copy a single file from the D:\Temp to the D:\Temp1 location.ExampleCopy-Item -Path D:\Temp\PowerShellcommands.csv -Destination D:\Temp1\ -PassThruOutputPS C:\Windows\System32> Copy-Item -Path D:\Temp\PowerShellcommands.csv -Destination D:\Temp1\ -PassThru     Directory: D:\Temp1 Mode                LastWriteTime         Length Name ----                -------------         ------ ---- -a----       20-01-2020   ... Read More

Copy-Item in PowerShell cmdlet is used for copying items from one location to another location in the same namespace. Here, the namespace meaning, you can copy items from files to the different folders but cannot files to the registry or the certificate store.This cmdlet doesn’t delete or cut the item from the source location instead, it copies the item to the destination folder with the same name or the different name.Copy-Item Syntax with parameters in PowerShell is as below.Copy-Item    [-Path]    [-LiteralPath]    [[-Destination] ]    [-Container]    [-Force]    [-Filter ]    [-Include ]    [-Exclude ... Read More

Adding values of the hash table is simple as the adding string. We just need to use the addition operator (+) to merge two hash table values.Here, we have two hash tables: $htable and $htable1.$htable = [Ordered]@{EmpName="Charlie";City="New York";EmpID="001"} $htable1 = [Ordered]@{Fruit='Apple';Color='Red'}We will now add two hash tables,$htable + $htalble1PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> $htable+$htable1 Name       Value ----       ----- EmpName    Charlie City       New York EmpID      001 Fruit      Apple Color      Red