How to delete "old" directories (recursively)?

Hello,

I have a very deeply nested directory structure which is part of a
loadbuild system. Because our loadbuild machine periodically runs out of
space, I would like to run a scheduled task which deletes old
build artifacts.

So, how can I make a powershell script which deletes (recursively)
directories which are older than X days? I'm not that familiar with the
..NET APIs, which is (I think) why I'm running into trouble on this one.

Thanks for the help. I imagine this is pretty easy for powershell veterans.

David Stuart wrote: Here's how I list all directories older than 2008 starting in c:\program
files:
PS C:\Program Files> get-childitem . -rec| `
where-object{$_.psiscontainer -and ($_.lastwritetime -lt "01/01/2008")}

Now to actually delete (just add this to the above command):
|foreach-object{remove-item $_ -recurse -whatif}

-whatif so you can check out what would be deleted. You can do a
start-transcript, run the above with the -whatif, stop-transcript, then
review the log of what should be deleted to make sure if meets your
requirements.

Marco

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Get-ChildItem -Recurse -Path .\* |
where{ ($_.mode -match '^d.*') -and
(([datetime]::Today-$_.CreationTime.Date).Days -gt X) } |
%{ Remove-Item $_ }


It's all one line.
Replace X for real value of days and .\* for real path.

On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 20:30:49 -0700, ajax76 wrote:
Thanks ..

That did the trick!