Delete everything within a specific directory Delete files older than 24 hours Delete files older than and create a log of which files were deleted Delete files on remote server Delete files/folders on remote servers using powershell Delete folder based on date of creation of folder Delete Fol...
Using -WhatIf and -Confirm are supposed to apply to everything inside your functions and everything they call. They do this by setting $WhatIfPreference to $true or setting $ConfirmPreference to Low in the local scope of the function. When you call another function, calls to ShouldProcess ...
This command copies the folder C:\temp\test1 to the new folder C:\temp\DeleteMe recursively:PowerShell Copy Copy-Item C:\temp\test1 -Recurse C:\temp\DeleteMe You can also copy a selection of items. The following command copies all .txt files contained anywhere in C:\data to C:\temp...
Also remember that if the path or folder name contains a space, you need to surround the entire path in quotes. Single quotes or double quotes will work the same if there are no "expandable" parts in the path or folder name, but the slightly safer choice is single quotes. This is what...
Can not execute powershell script from shared folder Can PowerShell be used to delete hidden USB/COM Ports? Can PowerShell restore previous versions of files/folders via Volume Shadow Services (VSS)? Can someone explain this - get-aduser displays passwordneverexpires as false ( this mean the ...
(Or maybe not; that’s more an aesthetic judgment than anything else.) However, we went this particular route so we could kill two birds with one stone: we could show you the basics of PowerShell date arithmeticandwe could delete all the old files in a folder. Consider this our ...
a PowerShell script designed to delete items from the folder C:\Scripts\Archive. Before you issue the delete command, you might want to verify that this folder even exists; after all, if it doesn’t your delete command is going to raise an error. How do you verify that a folder exists...
For testing I created a Test folder in my C drive root. Inside the Test Folder I created 4 Parent folders. Inside Parent 1 I created 2 child folders (as a parent may have none or many child folders) Inside Parent 3 - 4 I created one child folder in each....
Unfortunately, it pulls up everything, and I meaneverything. with the letters, HSG, in it, including folder titles. We can tell it to showonlyfiles by using PowerShell. This was introduced in version 3 of PowerShell. Get-Childitem–PathC:\-Include*HSG*-File-Recurse-ErrorActionSilentlyContin...
Once again we’ve used the wildcard character to say we want to move everything in the Scripts folder that ends in .txt. And amazingly enough, that’s exactly what happens when you run this command. Delete Files and Folders We’ve now used the Copy-Item cmdlet to copy a file and Mov...