Issues with robocopy /xf switch when using a variable for the /xf in powershell

Etterz

3/7/24, 10:15 PM

I've got a cleanup job that is running daily to clean a number of directories based on a csv file. The CSV file contains the following:

SourceFolder,MinAge(Days),SubDirectories(Y/N?),ExcludeItems
TEST,0,N,*.txt;*.csv;*.bmp
TEST2,0,N,*.csv;*.bmp

I'm extracting the ExcludeItems data using:

$ExcludeItems = $ExcludeItems.Replace($separator,",")
$ExcludeItems = "`" + $ExcludeItems`""

Mind you I've tried multiple different ways of constructing this variable

And my robocopy statement is as follows:

robocopy $sourceFolder $purgeFolder /XF $ExcludeItems /COPY:DT /DCOPY:T /MOV /E /MINAGE:$OlderThan /r:10

With the $sourceFolder and $purgeFolder previously constructed based on the environment.

Everything was working fine until the /XF switch was included which no matter how I construct the $ExcludeItems it either excludes nothing or only one of the file types.

Any suggestions?

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