Remove Files on FTP Site with Powershell

Question

_{Tuesday, July 12, 2011 5:56 PM}

Good Day

I need to remove a File (ftp://11.19.2.10/FishFood_Price_20110712.csv) an FTP Site ftp://11.19.2.10, my username is DarkJoker and password is $hortN@m3, because my server has powershell fully setup and we will be moving it to a new VM enviroment I can not install any new programs, how can i use powershell to delete files on an FTP Site of which i have full access to.

Regards

Nishol 

All replies (4)

_{Tuesday, July 12, 2011 7:12 PM ✅Answered | 3 votes}

Hi,

Try use FtpWebRequest class:

$sourceuri = "ftp://<user>@<ftpserver>/<file>"
$ftprequest = [System.Net.FtpWebRequest]::create($sourceuri)
$ftprequest.Credentials =  New-Object System.Net.NetworkCredential(<User>,<pass>)
$ftprequest.Method = [System.Net.WebRequestMethods+Ftp]::DeleteFile
$ftprequest.GetResponse()

_{Wednesday, October 2, 2013 2:49 PM}

Hello.

Very nice script for deleting file, which name is alredy known.

How can it be modified to delete all files which older than 5 days?

I need something like this but working with ftp:

FORFILES /P C:\1 /D -5 /M *.* /C "cmd /c del @path"

Thanks for help in advanced.

_{Friday, November 15, 2013 10:01 PM}

Just use powershell:

$Now = Get-Date
$DayTime = "$($Now.ToShortDateString()) $($Now.ToShortTimeString())"

$LastWrite = $Now.AddHours(-24)

$Files = Get-ChildItem $TargetDirectory -Recurse | Where {$_.LastWriteTime -le "$LastWrite"}

        foreach ($File in $Files)
            {
//whatever

           }
      }

_{Friday, November 15, 2013 10:11 PM | 1 vote}

There is a great powershell addon that allows you to use FTP.  http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/PowerShell-FTP-Client-db6fe0cb

Just FYI.