PowerShell - Copying files in random folders to other folders

Question

I have the following text file (tab delimited) that maps a specific file to a folder. I start with importing this csv:

SourcePathFile  DestinationPath
C:\Test\Source\SourceDir 1\pic1.jpg C:\Test\Destination\Folder, 1
C:\Test\Source\SourceDir 1\Pic 2.jpg    C:\Test\Destination\Folder 2

By using:

Import-csv -Delimiter `t "C:\Test\FileMapping.csv"

This gives me the array I want, so I figured that it would be a simple For-each to go through each line using

Copy-Item SourcePathFile DestinationPath

I'm clearly missing the general concepts

Answer 1

Assuming that your input file is valid TSV (is comma at the end of the line 2 is intended?) you can do this using pipeline:

Import-Csv -Path 'C:\Test\FileMapping.csv' -Delimiter "`t" |
    ForEach-Object {Copy-Item -Path $_.SourcePathFile -Destination $_.DestinationPath}