Copying folders while excluding a certain folder and files in Powershell

Question

My goal is to create a Powershell program that excludes a certain folder, in this example, titled "ExcludeFolder" along with every file in each folder. I only want to copy the folder structure.

I could have folders like this:

//fileshare/src/client/01/IncludeFolder3

//fileshare/src/client/101/ExcludeFolder

My code looks something like this:

$srcparent = "//fileshare/src/client"
$dstparent = "//fileshare/dst/client"
Copy-Item $srcparent $dstparent -Recurse -Force -Exclude "ExcludeFolder", "*.*"

When I run my code, it does two things: it doesn't copy the files over (which is what I want), but it does copy "ExcludeFolder" over for each client (which is not what I want).

Answer 1

My goal is to create a Powershell program that excludes a certain folder, in this example, titled "ExcludeFolder" along with every file in each folder. I only want to copy the folder structure.

I could have folders like this:

//fileshare/src/client/01/IncludeFolder3

//fileshare/src/client/101/ExcludeFolder

My code looks something like this:

$srcparent = "//fileshare/src/client"
$dstparent = "//fileshare/dst/client"
Copy-Item $srcparent $dstparent -Recurse -Force -Exclude "ExcludeFolder", "*.*"

When I run my code, it does two things: it doesn't copy the files over (which is what I want), but it does copy "ExcludeFolder" over for each client (which is not what I want).