usage of xcopy command in octopus deploy PostDeploy.ps1

Question

I'm trying to copy files using xcopy in octopus deploy. But seems xcopy is not working. Here is the command I'm using in PostDeploy.ps1

xcopy Content C:\websitecode /e /y /exclude:test.txt

Reason for using xcopy is I can exclude multiple files.

Can someone please help me how to use xcopy in octopus deploy...

Thank you.

What, exactly, does `xcopy is not working` mean? No files copied? Wrong files copied? Right files copied into wrong directory? Something else unexpected behavior? — vonPryz, Dec 22 '15 at 06:27
Hi VonPryz, Thanks for your reply. In my case, xcopy is not copying the files and I don't see any error. — mahesh, Dec 22 '15 at 14:10
You can use Powershells copy-item to exclude multiple items by piping get-childitem into copy-item as pointed out in the answer to [this question](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/731752/exclude-list-in-powershell-copy-item-does-not-appear-to-be-working). Therefore you don't have to use xcopy to achieve what you want. — tobre, Jan 07 '16 at 13:13

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 10 '16 at 02:35

Could you see that your postdeploy.ps1 execution has started in your octopus deployment task log? If you could see try my favorite xcopy script which I am already using it.

$FullPath = "C:\MyFolder"

if ($OctopusEnvironmentName -ceq 'Development')

{
  Write-Host "Console app will be execute"

  & "xcopy" $FullPath/myfolder/*.dll "c:\targetfolder" your parameters | Write-Host

  Write-Host "Console app execution has finied"

}

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered May 13 '16 at 20:41

It's a known issue that Octopus silently eats xcopy, and the Octopus folks don't seem too concerned about it, providing tons of workarounds like "just use copy-item". That mostly works for me, but I wish I understood why xcopy doesn't work because it might be the case that other things fail silently as well.

usage of xcopy command in octopus deploy PostDeploy.ps1

2 Answers2