avoid existing file details of destination folder in Robocopy log
It looks like you can't based on this TechNet posting because even the /v
output would still show skipped files.
Only option I can figure would be run a script on the log removing the skipped lines.
By default robocopy
logs only folders and nonpresent/modified (i.e. copied) files.
New Dir 2 C:\Temp\a\
100% New File 0 bar.txt
100% New File 0 foo.txt
You can suppress the logging of folders with the /ndl
switch (in this case the copied files will be listed with their full path).
100% New File 0 C:\Temp\a\bar.txt
100% New File 0 C:\Temp\a\foo.txt
Modify just foo.txt
and re-run robocopy a b /ndl
and you get
100% Newer 3 C:\Temp\a\foo.txt
Add /njh
and /njs
to remove header and summary from the output. Add /np
to remove progress indication (the percent value at the beginning of the output line). Add /xx
to remove indication of extra files (files that exist only in the destination, but not in the source folder):
C:\Temp>robocopy a b /njh /njs /ndl /np
*EXTRA File 0 C:\Temp\b\baz.txt
New File 0 C:\Temp\a\bar.txt
New File 0 C:\Temp\a\foo.txt
C:\Temp>echo "foo" >a\bar.txt
C:\Temp>robocopy a b /njh /njs /ndl /np /l
*EXTRA File 0 C:\Temp\b\baz.txt
Newer 3 C:\Temp\a\bar.txt
C:\Temp>robocopy a b /njh /njs /ndl /np /xx /l
Newer 8 C:\Temp\a\bar.txt
You should use /NFL /NDL
. They will remove all directory and file listings that are not part of robocopy actions.
Official reference
Readable reference
Finally I could not find any switches, chose to script in such a way to remove the existing file details line and set the file back with same file name after each robocopy completes
#To remove all Lines with string "Extra File"
(Get-Content $LogPath)-replace '(.*Extra File).+' | Set-Content $LogPath
#To remove all empty lines
(Get-Content $LogPath) | Where-Object {$_ -match '\S'} | Set-Content $LogPath
what I did in my log files for existing file details line starts with "Extra File" string, so i remove all those lines. But the line space remains. so I used another commmand to remove all empty lines.
Please contribute, any one got easy method for this