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saffron
Asked: 2020-10-06 20:56:27 +0800 CST

Copying Content from a file to another when a new line is added using poweshell script

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I have a file named server1.txt and one more file named server1_copy.txt. In server1.txt, all logs will be added from the application. So whenever a new line is added in the server1.txt, we need to copy that and paste it in the server1_copy.txt. We can keep the code in powershell script and schedule it to run every 30 minutes to perform this action.

I dont have much experiance in Powershell script. But I gone through so many documents in online, could not find a right solution to this.

Does anyone have any idea how we can achieve this using Powershell scripts.

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  1. Best Answer

    This will copy new lines added to server1.txt to server1_copy.txt in real time.

     Get-Content -Path 'server1.txt' -Tail 0 -Wait | ForEach-Object { Add-Content -Value $_ -Path 'server1_copy.txt' }

    If you need to bring the files in sync before running the above or that real time is simply unnecessary, a file copy can be done with the Copy-Item cmdlet

    Copy-Item -Path 'server1.txt' -Destination 'server1_copy.txt'
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