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When the break statement is mentioned with the Label, PowerShell exits to the label instead of exiting the current loop.Example$i = 1 while ($i -lt 10) {    Write-Output "i = $i"    if($i -eq 5){       Write-Output "Break statement executed"       Break :mylable    }    $i++ } Write-Output "Entering to another loop" $j = 1 :mylable while($j -lt 3){    Write-Output "j = $j"    $j++ }Outputi = 1 i = 2 i = 3 i = 4 i = 5 Break statement executed Entering to another loop j = 1 j = 2As you can see in the above example when the value of 5 executed, the block containing label (mylable) is also executed and execution moves to another loop.

In Switch command, when the single value passed and if it matches the condition then the loop gets automatically exited but when there are multiple values passed and if the value matches the first condition and if you want to terminate the loop then you can use the Break statement. An example is given below.ExampleSwitch (3,5){    1 {"This is One"}    2 {"This is Two"}    3 {"This is Three"; Break}    4 {"This is Four"}    5 {"This is Five"; Break} }OutputThis is ThreeYou can notice in the above output that second parameter 5 won’t be executed because the 3 has already been executed with the break statement.

You can use the PowerShell Break statement with the foreach loop as mentioned below.Exampleforeach($obj in (Get-ChildItem D:\Temp)){    Write-Output $obj    if($obj.Name -eq "cars.xml"){Break} }OutputDirectory: D:\Temp Mode LastWriteTime  Length Name ---- -------------  ------ ---- d-----   13-12-2019 09:52GPO_backup d-----   24-11-2018 11:31 LGPO -a----   27-01-2020 22:21   13962 Alias1 -a----   26-01-2020 19:20   13818 aliases.txt -a----   07-05-2018 23:00301 cars.xmlIn the above example, when the file name matches the cars.xml then the loop gets terminated.

To use the Break statement with the For loop, consider the below example.Examplefor($i=1; $i -le 10; $i++){    Write-Host "i = $i"    if($i -eq 5){break} }Outputi = 1 i = 2 i = 3 i = 4 i = 5Here, when the value of $i reaches to 5, For loop gets terminated.To use the Break with the nested For loop.Inner For loop Break statement.Examplefor($i=1; $i -le 3; $i++){    for($j=1; $j -le 5; $j++){       Write-Host "i = $i"       Write-Host "j = $j`n"       if($j -eq 3){break}    } }Outputi = 1 j = 1 i = 1 j = 2 i = 1 j = 3 i = 2 j = 1 i = 2 j = 2 i ... Read More

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