Need some help on creating a script with PowerShell Get-ChildItem

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I've got a question. I want to do the following thing with PowerShell. Copy everything to a new directory except the folders named "56789" and "56789121". I tried GCI with the -Exclude option but it's not working as I want it.

You can find a visual representation of how I want to copy the things below:

C:\DATA
+---2
|   +---56789
|   +---Archived2001
|   |   |   66.txt
|   |   |
|   |   \---New folder
|   \---Archived2002
\---4
    |   33 - Copy.txt
    |   33.txt
    |
    +---56789121
    +---Archived2005
    \---Archived2008
            33 - Copy.txt

C:\MOVED
+---2
|   +---Archived2001
|   |   |   66.txt
|   |   |
|   |   \---New folder
|   \---Archived2002
\---4
    |   33 - Copy.txt
    |   33.txt
    |
    +---Archived2005
    \---Archived2008
            33 - Copy.txt

Until now I've got this but it's not working.

$from = 'c:\data'
$to = 'c:\moved'
$exclude = 'C:\data\*\[0-9]\'
Get-ChildItem -Path $from -r | ? {
    $_.PsIsContainer -and $_.FullName -notmatch '$exclude'
} | Copy-Item -Destination $to -WhatIf

Possible duplicate of [How can I exclude multiple folders using Get-ChildItem -exclude?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15294836/how-can-i-exclude-multiple-folders-using-get-childitem-exclude) — sodawillow, Sep 19 '17 at 08:23
No code, no error message, hard to help. [You can edit your question to include these](https://stackoverflow.com/posts/46295326/edit). — sodawillow, Sep 19 '17 at 08:24
Your filter doesn't work because PowerShell doesn't expand variables in single-quoted strings. However, even with `'$exclude'` changed to `"$exclude"` your copy operation won't do what you want, because it doesn't preserve relative paths. You're looking for [`robocopy`](https://technet.microsoft.com/de-de/library/cc733145.aspx). — Ansgar Wiechers, Sep 19 '17 at 09:21
Tried `robocopy` but not working. `robocopy C:\data C:\moved /lev:3 /xd 1* 2* 3* 4* 5* 6* 7* 8* 9* 0* /mir` this is the one I tried. I tried with different `/lev:n` — Χρήστος Τσοπάνι, Sep 19 '17 at 10:27
yes this is working but for the specific folders. what If I have thousands of them? the structure is the same as the above mentioned — Χρήστος Τσοπάνι, Sep 19 '17 at 10:38
You build a list of the folders to exclude in a variable and use that: `robocopy ... /xd $excludes ...`. — Ansgar Wiechers, Sep 19 '17 at 18:38

Need some help on creating a script with PowerShell Get-ChildItem

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