Robocopy folders with string

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I more than 200K folders that I need to move from one network location to another network location. I want to do it with Robocopy.
I need help with 2 things

1. I want to move folders starting with string '19'
2. I want to move folders created before 2019 year.

What I have tried:

robocopy \\netwroksourcepath\path\19* \\netwrokdestinationpath\path\ /E /MOVE /MT

Posted 15-Jun-20 13:00pm

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Updated 16-Jun-20 2:22am

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Richard MacCutchan 16-Jun-20 3:34am

And? What is the question?

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Richard Deeming · Accepted Answer · 2020-06-16T02:22:00

robocopy | Microsoft Docs[^]

There is no support for wildcards in the source directory. You'll need to use a for loop to issue a separate robocopy command for each matching folder.

FOR /D %G In ("\\networksourcepath\path\19*") DO robocopy %G \\networkdestinationpath\path\%~nG /E /MOVE /MT

(In a batch file, you'd need to double-up the % characters.)

I can't see an easy way to copy folders based on their creation date in a batch file. You might need to use Powershell for that.

PowerShell

$MaxDate = Get-Date -Date "2019-01-01"
Get-ChildItem "\\networksourcepath\path" -Attributes Directory | Where-Object CreationTime -lt $MaxDate | ForEach-Object -Process { 
    $destination = "\\networkdestinationpath\path\$($_Item.Name)"
    robocopy $_.FullName $destination /E /MOVE /MT
}