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11-12-2008
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| | powershell script help - recursive delete based on modified date Hello all, I am a newbie when it comes to powershell. I need some assistance in writing a script that will perform a recursive delete on a folder on all files that match a certain extension (*.log) and are older than 3 months old. Any help would be much appreciated! TIA! |
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11-12-2008
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| | Re: powershell script help - recursive delete based on modified date On Nov 12, 9:43*am, <par...@xxxxxx> wrote: Quote: > Hello all, > > I am a newbie when it comes to powershell. I need some assistance in writing > a script that will perform a recursive delete on a folder on all files that > match a certain extension (*.log) and are older than 3 months old. > > Any help would be much appreciated! > > TIA! $cutoff = (get-date).AddMonths(-3) Get-ChildItem -incl '*.log' -rec| ?{$_.LastWriteTime -lt $cutoff -and !$_.PSIsContainer}| remove-item -whatif Naturally you want to remove the -whatif to have the files actually removed:-) |
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