I am trying to assign all child paths of files in a directory to an array but not assigning the directories.
I am using the following command:
$a = Get-ChildItem -path "C:\test\" -recurse | ?{!$_.PSIsContainer } | % { Write-Host $_.FullName }
The output is printed to the console and not saved in the variable.
Any idea way?
The reason it is writing to the console is because you are saying Write-Host. If you use Write-Output instead, it will save to the variable.
$a = Get-ChildItem -path "C:\test\" -recurse | ?{!$_.PSIsContainer } | % { Write-Output $_.FullName }
Or try using the "Select-Object" instead of write host.
It would look like this:
$a = Get-ChildItem -path "C:\test\" -recurse | ?{!$_.PSIsContainer } | select-object -expand FullName
The console output from Write-Host is only displayed, not returned.
You will need to save the value in a variable first, then you can print it:
$a = Get-ChildItem -path "C:\test\" -recurse | ?{!$_.PSIsContainer };
$a | % { Write-Host $_.FullName }
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How can I use the 1709 as a wildcard? The value 1709 is stored in an array as $MoveItem.Version, but I can't figure out how do a -like, when the value comes from an array, as I can't put in a wildcard *. I also tried to do a match.
The file name looks like this: REFW10-X86-1709_01-12-2017.wim.
The below code works fine, but I would like to automate it, so everything comes from the array. Is that possible?
Get-ChildItem -Path $OSPathTemp -Recurse | Where {
($_.Name -eq $MoveItem.File) -and
($_.Name -like "*1709*")
} | Select-Object -ExpandProperty FullName
$MoveItem.Version contains 1607,1706,1709. I would like to choose only the one with 1709. The final output should look like this:
foreach ($MoveItem in $MoveItems) {
Get-ChildItem -Path $OSPathTemp -Recurse | Where {
($_.Name -eq $MoveItem.File) -and
($_.Name -like $MoveItem.Version)
} | Select-Object -ExpandProperty FullName
}
The Array looks like this:
$MoveItem = #(
[pscustomobject]#{File="REFW10-X86-1709_01-12-2017.wim";Version=1709}
[pscustomobject]#{File="REFW10-X86-1706_01-12-2017.wim";Version=1706}
)
So you have a hash table (or similar) named $MoveItem that has a .File property that is a filename, and you have a .Versions property that's a string array?
Test name: REFW10-X86-1709_01-12-2017.wim
Get-ChildItem -Path $OSPathTemp -Recurse |
ForEach-Object {
If ($_.Name -match '-\d{4}_') { $Version = $Matches[0] }
If ($Version -in $MoveItem.Versions -and
$_.Name -eq $MoveItem.File) { $_.FullName }
}
I really need some help with Powershell, complete novice in Powershell
I have the command below, which outputs a list of paths searching for folder called "xyz" created multiple times on a share, used as a variable
$FOLDERLISTS = (Get-ChildItem \\server\share -Recurse | Where-Object { ( $._PSIsContainer -eq $true) -and ($_.Name -like "xyz" -and ( $_.mode -match "d") | % { Write-Host $_.FullName })
How can I use the multiple folder paths, can I set this as a variable?
Basically I just want to get the folder paths, then run another Get-ChildItem against each folder path the above command outputs, so if it was a single variable the command would looks like;
Get-ChildItem "#ABOVECOMMAND" -Recurse | Where-Object ( !($_.PSIsContainer) -and $_.lenght -le 1000000 )
Can I somehow use ForEach for this to run over the multiple paths?
foreach ($FOLDERLIST in $FOLDERLISTS)
{
Get-ChildItem -Recurse | Where-Object { !($_.PSIsContainer) -and $_.lenght -le 1000000 }
}
Or
$FOLDERLISTS | ForEach-Object{
Get-ChildItem -Recurse | Where-Object { !($_.PSIsContainer) -and $_.lenght -le 1000000 }
Or just export the paths to a text file and import into the command? Completely stuck.
Your first try should be more like this:
foreach ($FOLDERLIST in $FOLDERLISTS)
{
Get-ChildItem $FOLDERLIST -Recurse | Where-Object { !($_.PSIsContainer) -and $_.lenght -le 1000000 }
}
OR your second try like this:
$FOLDERLISTS | ForEach-Object{
Get-ChildItem $_ -Recurse | Where-Object { !($_.PSIsContainer) -and $_.lenght -le 1000000 }
The script searches all folders and subfolders and delete the oldest file when the number of files is>5. Everything works fine, but I want also log all the delete Files as a record in a log-file.
How can I log the deleted files ?
Here the Script.
$path = "C:\test\1"
$keep = 3
$strLogFileName = "c:\test\yourlogfile.log";
$dirs = Get-ChildItem -Path $path -Recurse | Where-Object {$_.PsIsContainer}
foreach ($dir in $dirs) {
$files = Get-ChildItem -Path $dir.FullName | Where-Object {-not $_.PsIsContainer -and $_.name -like "*.zip"}
if ($files.Count -gt $keep) {
$files | Sort-Object CreationTime -desc| Select-Object -First ($files.Count - $keep) | Remove-Item -Force
***{write-host “Deleting File $File” -foregroundcolor “Red”; Remove-Item $File | out-null}***
}
}
First you will need a log-message type function in your script that will log the message to a .log file. Then chekc if the file exists and if not then create a file.
Then just before you delete your file with Remove-Item command you can use Log-Message function to log message to the log file.
% { (Log-Message "Deleting File $_"); $_ }
Complete script
$path = "C:\test\1"
$keep = 3
$strLogFileName = "c:\test\yourlogfile.log";
function Log-Message
{
Param ([string]$logtext)
Add-content $strLogFileName -value $logtext
}
$dirs = Get-ChildItem -Path $path -Recurse | Where-Object {$_.PsIsContainer}
foreach ($dir in $dirs) {
$files = Get-ChildItem -Path $dir.FullName | Where-Object {-not $_.PsIsContainer -and $_.name -like "*.zip"}
if ($files.Count -gt $keep) {
$files | Sort-Object CreationTime -desc| Select-Object -First ($files.Count - $keep) |
% { $dt=get-date;(Log-Message "Deleting File $_ on $dt");$_ }| Remove-Item -Force
}
}
You've got a good start here:
write-host “Deleting File $File” -foregroundcolor “Red”
Unfortunately Remove-Item doesn't have any output that you can mooch from, but you've already made your own output message so we can just build from that. You can pipe any output to a file by using Out-File. The append flag will attach the new content to the end of the file, and you do not have to check if the file exists.
Write-Output “Deleting File $File” | Out-File -Append logfile.txt
You don't even have to include Write-Output, if you want a shorter line.
Here is an example that shows where you need to add code. I've marked existing code with "...", and I've moved the deletion message into a variable so that you can reuse it at another location. This assumes that you've stored the selected filename in a variable.
...
if ($files.Count -gt $keep)
{
...
$message = "Deleting File $File at "+(Get-Date)
$message | Out-File -Append logfile.txt
}
...
I have this bit of powershell script but i can't get the $DirectoryName to behave as expected.
1,2,3 |
foreach {
$count = $_;
$x = gci -Path \\myserver-web$count\d$\IISLogs\ -include *.log -recurse
$x | Copy-Item -Destination D:\ServerLogsAndBackups\IIS\w$count\$_.DirectoryName_$_.Name -whatIf
}
When I run this though I get
What if: Performing operation "Copy File" on Target "Item: \myserver-web1\d$\IISLogs\W3SVC1165836668\ex101224.log Destination: D:\ServerLogsAndBackups\IIS\w1\1.DirectoryName_1.Name".
What I want it to be is
W3SVC1165836668_ex101206.log
where my directory structure is like:
\\myserver-web1\d$\IISLogs\W3SVC1165836668
\\myserver-web1\d$\IISLogs\W3SVC1165837451
\\myserver-web1\d$\IISLogs\W3SVC1165836966
\\myserver-web1\d$\IISLogs\W3SVC1165812365
with files called ex101206.log in each folder
Cheers
You need to evaluate the $_.Directoryname_$_.Name part. Like so,
$x | Copy-Item -Destination $(D:\ServerLogsAndBackups\IIS\w$count\$_.DirectoryName_$_.Name) -whatIf
1,2,3 |
foreach {
$count = $_;
gci -Path \\myserver-web$count\d$\IISLogs\ -include *.log -recurse | % { $dirName = $_.directoryname.Substring($_.directoryname.LastIndexOf("\")+1); $logname = $_.Name; $_ | Copy-Item -Destination $("D:\ServerLogsAndBackups\IIS\w"+$count+"\"+$dirname+"_"+$logName) -whatif }
}
I have a share that is a "junk drawer" for end-users. They are able to create folders and subfolders as they see fit. I need to implement a script to delete files created more than 31 days old.
I have that started with Powershell. I need to follow up the file deletion script by deleting subfolders that are now empty. Because of the nesting of subfolders, I need to avoid deleting a subfolder that is empty of files, but has a subfolder below it that contains a file.
For example:
FILE3a is 10 days old. FILE3 is 45 days old.
I want to clean up the structure removing files older than 30 days, and delete empty subfolders.
C:\Junk\subfolder1a\subfolder2a\FILE3a
C:\Junk\subfolder1a\subfolder2a\subfolder3a
C:\Junk\subfolder1a\subfolder2B\FILE3b
Desired result:
Delete: FILE3b, subfolder2B & subfolder3a.
Leave: subfolder1a, subfolder2a, and FILE3a.
I can recursively clean up the files. How do I clean up the subfolders without deleting subfolder1a? (The "Junk" folder will always remain.)
I would do this in two passes - deleting the old files first and then the empty dirs:
Get-ChildItem -recurse | Where {!$_.PSIsContainer -and `
$_.LastWriteTime -lt (get-date).AddDays(-31)} | Remove-Item -whatif
Get-ChildItem -recurse | Where {$_.PSIsContainer -and `
#(Get-ChildItem -Lit $_.Fullname -r | Where {!$_.PSIsContainer}).Length -eq 0} |
Remove-Item -recurse -whatif
This type of operation demos the power of nested pipelines in PowerShell which the second set of commands demonstrates. It uses a nested pipeline to recursively determine if any directory has zero files under it.
In the spirit of the first answer, here is the shortest way to delete the empty directories:
ls -recurse | where {!#(ls -force $_.fullname)} | rm -whatif
The -force flag is needed for the cases when the directories have hidden folders, like .svn
This will sort subdirectories before parent directories working around the empty nested directory problem.
dir -Directory -Recurse |
%{ $_.FullName} |
sort -Descending |
where { !#(ls -force $_) } |
rm -WhatIf
Adding on to the last one:
while (Get-ChildItem $StartingPoint -recurse | where {!#(Get-ChildItem -force $_.fullname)} | Test-Path) {
Get-ChildItem $StartingPoint -recurse | where {!#(Get-ChildItem -force $_.fullname)} | Remove-Item
}
This will make it complete where it will continue searching to remove any empty folders under the $StartingPoint
I needed some enterprise-friendly features. Here is my take.
I started with code from other answers, then added a JSON file with original folder list (including file count per folder). Removed the empty directories and log those.
https://gist.github.com/yzorg/e92c5eb60e97b1d6381b
param (
[switch]$Clear
)
# if you want to reload a previous file list
#$stat = ConvertFrom-Json (gc dir-cleanup-filecount-by-directory.json -join "`n")
if ($Clear) {
$stat = #()
} elseif ($stat.Count -ne 0 -and (-not "$($stat[0].DirPath)".StartsWith($PWD.ProviderPath))) {
Write-Warning "Path changed, clearing cached file list."
Read-Host -Prompt 'Press -Enter-'
$stat = #()
}
$lineCount = 0
if ($stat.Count -eq 0) {
$stat = gci -Recurse -Directory | %{ # -Exclude 'Visual Studio 2013' # test in 'Documents' folder
if (++$lineCount % 100 -eq 0) { Write-Warning "file count $lineCount" }
New-Object psobject -Property #{
DirPath=$_.FullName;
DirPathLength=$_.FullName.Length;
FileCount=($_ | gci -Force -File).Count;
DirCount=($_ | gci -Force -Directory).Count
}
}
$stat | ConvertTo-Json | Out-File dir-cleanup-filecount-by-directory.json -Verbose
}
$delelteListTxt = 'dir-cleanup-emptydirs-{0}-{1}.txt' -f ((date -f s) -replace '[-:]','' -replace 'T','_'),$env:USERNAME
$stat |
? FileCount -eq 0 |
sort -property #{Expression="DirPathLength";Descending=$true}, #{Expression="DirPath";Descending=$false} |
select -ExpandProperty DirPath | #-First 10 |
?{ #(gci $_ -Force).Count -eq 0 } | %{
Remove-Item $_ -Verbose # -WhatIf # uncomment to see the first pass of folders to be cleaned**
$_ | Out-File -Append -Encoding utf8 $delelteListTxt
sleep 0.1
}
# ** - The list you'll see from -WhatIf isn't a complete list because parent folders
# might also qualify after the first level is cleaned. The -WhatIf list will
# show correct breath, which is what I want to see before running the command.
To remove files older than 30 days:
get-childitem -recurse |
? {$_.GetType() -match "FileInfo"} |
?{ $_.LastWriteTime -lt [datetime]::now.adddays(-30) } |
rm -whatif
(Just remove the -whatif to actually perform.)
Follow up with:
get-childitem -recurse |
? {$_.GetType() -match "DirectoryInfo"} |
?{ $_.GetFiles().Count -eq 0 -and $_.GetDirectories().Count -eq 0 } |
rm -whatif
This worked for me.
$limit = (Get-Date).AddDays(-15)
$path = "C:\Some\Path"
Delete files older than the $limit:
Get-ChildItem -Path $path -Recurse -Force | Where-Object { !$_.PSIsContainer -and $_.CreationTime -lt $limit } | Remove-Item -Force
Delete any empty directories left behind after deleting the old files:
Get-ChildItem -Path $path -Recurse -Force | Where-Object { $_.PSIsContainer -and (Get-ChildItem -Path $_.FullName -Recurse -Force | Where-Object { !$_.PSIsContainer }) -eq $null } | Remove-Item -Force -Recurse