Get-ChildItem to Move-Item - path not found

Question

I try to move my old logfiles to a yyyy\MM\dd folder structure by

Get-ChildItem . -Recurse -Include *.log | 
Move-Item -Dest {"D:\Archive\{0:yyyy\\MM\\dd}\{1}" -f $_.LastWriteTime, $_.Name} -Force

but i get a path-not-found error.

update

The source path does not seem to be the problem. It looks like using -Force on Move-Item does not create missing destination directories.

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sub question: Could the same be done without Get-ChildItem?

Answer 1

I guess that for a source file “some.log” the destination is supposed to be something like “D:\Archive\2010\04\23\some.log” and the directory “D:\Archive\2010\04\23” actually does not exist. In this case Move-Item fails. Is this the case?

Answer 2

As far as I found the proposed way of moving logs practically interesting, I decided to complete the task:

Get-ChildItem . -Recurse -Include *.log |
Move-Item -Force -Destination {
    $dir = "C:\Temp\{0:yyyy\\MM\\dd}" -f $_.LastWriteTime
    $null = mkdir $dir -Force
    "$dir\$($_.Name)"
}