Script to delete files created on a specific date with sepecific name

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2014-09-18

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_{Thursday, September 18, 2014 5:30 AM}

Hi,

Is it possible to help me with a powershell script that delete files under a folder and subfolders that have the following attributes

1. have the name (default.*) and (index.*)

2. created on a specific date say 1-9-2014

3. created between specific time say between 10:00 - 16:00

Thanks in advance!

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_{Monday, September 22, 2014 11:20 AM ✅Answered}

Hi,

Try this:

$path=$env:userprofile
$startdate=[datetime]::ParseExact("01-09-2014 10:00","dd-MM-yyyy HH:mm",$null)
$enddate=[datetime]::ParseExact("01-09-2014 16:00","dd-MM-yyyy HH:mm",$null)

#ps3 version
Get-ChildItem -File -Path $path -Include "default.*","index.*" -Recurse | where {$_.CreationTime -gt $startdate -and $_.CreationTime -lt $enddate}| Remove-Item -WhatIf
#ps2 version
Get-ChildItem -Path $path -Include "default.*","index.*" -Recurse | where {$_.CreationTime -gt $startdate -and $_.CreationTime -lt $enddate -and !$_.PSIsContainer} | Remove-Item -WhatIf

Good luck)

_{Thursday, September 18, 2014 8:03 AM}

Try following the following article:

http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2009/09/23/hey-scripting-guy-september-23-2009.aspx

_{Thursday, September 18, 2014 12:29 PM}

Hi RBoyde,

Thank you for you answer. i already read this article and this does not help since its only sort files and it only works on 1 folder levels and does not scan Child level.

i have one Parent folder and inside it hunders of Child folders. inside each Child folder there are hunders of folders.

i need to delete files with specific name that are created on specific date for all files located under Parent folder.

_{Thursday, September 18, 2014 1:07 PM}

Hi,

Get-ChildItem has a -Recurse parameter you can use to include subfolders. As for testing on the creation date/time, the files have a CreationTime property you can use to filter on.

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_{Thursday, September 18, 2014 1:22 PM}

This is what i use to delete all files (not folders) in a particular folder ($BackupPath) that are more than 10 days old. Maybe you can use some of it.

get-childitem "$BackupPath\*.*"  | where {$_.lastwritetime -lt (get-date).adddays(-10) -and -not $_.psiscontainer} |% {remove-item $_.fullname -force }

_{Friday, September 19, 2014 5:22 AM}

Have a play with this.

Get-ChildItem -Recurse c:\temp\*.* | Where-Object {$_.CreationTime -gt (get-date "01-09-2014 10:00AM") -and $_.
CreationTime -lt (get-date "01-09-2014 14:00PM")} | Where-Object {$_.name -match "default"} | Remove-Item

This will match any file with the default string in its name and remove it.

Cheers,

Martin

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_{Monday, September 22, 2014 7:52 AM}

Thanks all for your replay.

I tried Martin script as it seems that it was the nearest of my need.I changed the script parameters to meet my needs but it does not work. I dont recieve any errors either but no files has been deleted.

Is it have to do with that the server is Windows 2003. I followed this link http://it.curu.ca/how-to-install-powershell-on-windows-server-2003-and-enable-remote-powershell-management/

_{Monday, September 22, 2014 11:10 PM}

break out the components of the script.

IE does this match

Get-ChildItem -Recurse c:\temp\*.*or Get-ChildItem -Recurse c:\temp\*.* | Where-Object {$_.CreationTime -gt (get-date "01-09-2014 10:00AM") -and $_.
CreationTime -lt (get-date "01-09-2014 14:00PM")}Get-ChildItem -Recurse c:\temp\*.* | Where-Object {$_.CreationTime -gt (get-date "01-09-2014 10:00AM") -and $_.
CreationTime -lt (get-date "01-09-2014 14:00PM")} | Where-Object {$_.name -match "default"}

Might not be working as it might not be matching.

Once you get it matching the remove-item will work.

Cheers,

Martin

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_{Friday, October 17, 2014 6:54 AM}

thanks all for you help.

Kolomiets unfortenattely the script didnt work but i used your idea of get-childitem -recurse to get a list of all the files and i added the Creation date as well as the file full path.

after that i used the full path with a script to delete all the files.

Thank you for you help!

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