diff --git a/Tasks/CopyFilesV2/copyfiles.ts b/Tasks/CopyFilesV2/copyfiles.ts
index 138e31767518..bfa0f94bff5a 100644
--- a/Tasks/CopyFilesV2/copyfiles.ts
+++ b/Tasks/CopyFilesV2/copyfiles.ts
@@ -2,6 +2,14 @@ import fs = require('fs');
 import path = require('path');
 import tl = require('azure-pipelines-task-lib/task');
 
+
+// we allow broken symlinks - since there could be broken symlinks found in source folder, but filtered by contents pattern
+const findOptions: tl.FindOptions = {
+    allowBrokenSymbolicLinks: true,
+    followSpecifiedSymbolicLink: true,
+    followSymbolicLinks: true
+};
+
 tl.setResourcePath(path.join(__dirname, 'task.json'));
 
 // contents is a multiline input containing glob patterns
@@ -16,13 +24,7 @@ const preserveTimestamp: boolean = tl.getBoolInput('preserveTimestamp', false);
 // normalize the source folder path. this is important for later in order to accurately
 // determine the relative path of each found file (substring using sourceFolder.length).
 sourceFolder = path.normalize(sourceFolder);
-// we allow broken symlinks - since there could be broken symlinks found in source folder, but filtered by contents pattern
-let allPaths: string[] = tl.find(sourceFolder,
-    {
-        allowBrokenSymbolicLinks: true,
-        followSpecifiedSymbolicLink: true,
-        followSymbolicLinks: true
-    });
+let allPaths: string[] = tl.find(sourceFolder, findOptions);
 let sourceFolderPattern = sourceFolder.replace('[', '[[]'); // directories can have [] in them, and they have special meanings as a pattern, so escape them
 let matchedPaths: string[] = tl.match(allPaths, contents, sourceFolderPattern); // default match options
 let matchedFiles: string[] = matchedPaths.filter((itemPath: string) => !tl.stats(itemPath).isDirectory()); // filter-out directories