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PowerShell: delete files older than x days
In the following example I will demonstrate how to use Windows PowerShell to delete files based on days. Windows
PowerShell is a new Windows commandline shell designed for a scripting environment. With Windows 7 and Windows Server
2008 R2, PowerShell is installed out off the box now.
Windows PowerShell has an interactive prompt and can be used in combination with scripts. I use “Windows PowerShell ISE”
application to generate the script (PS1 extension). Notepad or any other text editor can be used as long the PS1 extension is
used.
The following procedure requires that Executions Policy for the interactive PowerShell console is set to RemoteSigned.
Please check the policy before starting with script.
Step 1 – Check the ExecutionPolicy for PowerShell
1 Get‐ExecutionPolicy
If the output results in “Restricted” make sure the execute the following step.
Step 2 – Set ExecutionPolicy to RemoteSigned
1 Set‐ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned
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Check again the the ExecutionPolicy and please make sure it stated “RemoteSigned”.
How to delete files older than X days?
Windows PowerShell is built on top of the .NET Framework common language runtime (CLR) and the .NET Framework. By
combining different cmdlets, PowerShell can help with executing complex tasks.
In the following example I will use couple of builtin commands to search for files older than defined days and delete the files.
This script can be useful for cleaning up some log files on a web server or deleting obsolete files.
Script logic
Define the parameters. For my example I am using C:\Applications\Logs folder where I want to delete files which are older than
7 days. I am also defining the LOG extension filter.
01 #‐‐‐‐‐ define parameters ‐‐‐‐‐#
BIG DATA
02
03
#‐‐‐‐‐ get current date ‐‐‐‐#
$Now = Get‐Date APPS FOR
04
05
#‐‐‐‐‐ define amount of days ‐‐‐‐#
$Days = "7" AI & IOT
06 #‐‐‐‐‐ define folder where files are located ‐‐‐‐#
07 $TargetFolder = "C:\Applications\Logs" EMBED.INTEGRATE.
08 #‐‐‐‐‐ define extension ‐‐‐‐#
09 $Extension = "*.log"
10 #‐‐‐‐‐ define LastWriteTime parameter based on $Days ‐‐‐#
11 $LastWrite = $Now.AddDays(‐$Days)
Get all files from the $TargetFolder and apply the $LastWrite filter
For each file in $TargetFolder folder, run a foreach loop and delete the file.
01 foreach ($File in $Files)
02 {
03 if ($File ‐ne $NULL)
04 {
05 write‐host "Deleting File $File" ‐ForegroundColor "DarkRed"
06 Remove‐Item $File.FullName | out‐null
07 } Search
08 else
09 {
10 Write‐Host "No more files to delete!" ‐foregroundcolor "Green"
11 }
12 }
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12 }
Create new file and name it Delete_Files_Older_Than_X_Days.PS1 Search
I used Windows PowerShell ISE to create and test the new file. Make sure to define your parameter like days, folder and
extension. For extension use * to include all files. Before assigning the script to a group policy, logon script or other Recent Posts
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02 #‐‐‐‐‐ get current date ‐‐‐‐#
03 $Now = Get‐Date POSTED IN WINDOWS 10
04 #‐‐‐‐‐ define amount of days ‐‐‐‐#
05 $Days = "7"
06 #‐‐‐‐‐ define folder where files are located ‐‐‐‐# PowerShell: Automate
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09 $Extension = "*.log"
10 #‐‐‐‐‐ define LastWriteTime parameter based on $Days ‐‐‐# POSTED IN POWERSHELL,
11 $LastWrite = $Now.AddDays(‐$Days) SAP, SCCM
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13 #‐‐‐‐‐ get files based on lastwrite filter and specified folder ‐‐‐#
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22 }
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How to run the new script from Command Prompt or PowerShell console?
From Command Prompt run the powershell command with with path and file name of the script.
1 powershell ‐command "& 'C:/Applications/Delete_Files_Older_Than_X_Days.PS1'"
From PowerShell console go to the folder and run the script. For example:
1 PS C:\Applications> .\Delete_Files_Older_Than_X_Days.PS1
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Make sure to test your modified version of this script. This PowerShell script works fine with my Windows environment based
on Windows Server 2003 and Windows 7. I hope this post will help you finding your solution on the problem you want to solve.
PowerShell options are endless.
References
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Tim May 28, 2009
This didn’t really work too well for me unless I used the FullName property of the $File object, and
used a recurse option on the RemoveItem cmdlet, like so:
foreach ($File in $Files) {
RemoveItem $File.FullName recurse
}
These were problems for me because:
a) the working directory for my script was c:\bin, but my target directory was c:\tmp. So what was
happening was I’d get an error on each call to RemoveItem, saying that c:\bin\ did not exist. The
$File.FullName fixed that problem, FullName contains the full path to the file to be deleted.
b) Without the recurse option on RemoveItem, you get a prompt asking you if you’re sure you want
to remove the directory (if the target is a directory). This is a larger problem in that the parent folder
may have an older modify date than it’s children folder, and unfortunately this script will simply
delete the parent and all subchildren blindly, even if a new file is located in a subchild directory.
Not good in general cases but for my c:\tmp dir I can live with it.
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Mike February 12, 2010
Worked great! Thanks!
Chris December 13, 2010
Worked perfectly as described, thanks very much!
Chris King March 10, 2011
Typical, ‘here is an untested script that I cooked up without seeing it if worked’ post.
Thanks Tim. You understand that testing/debug is 90% of scripting.
Thomas G Mayfield May 2, 2011
getchilditem | where FilterScript {$_.LastWriteTime le [System.DateTime]::Now.AddDays(7)} |
removeitem
Weaselspleen May 7, 2011
@Chris King:
Typical, “here is a post where I criticize the article without having actually read it.”
Had you bothered to read it, you’d have noticed that this script is intended to do exactly one thing,
and that is remove old Symantec antivirus definitions.
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Here are the subtle clues which allowed me to figure this out:
1. The file mask specifies .zip and .def files
2. The target folder includes a Symantec path
3. The fact that he titles the script “RemoveScriptSymantec.ps1”
4. The fact that he SPECIFICALLY DESCRIBED EXACTLY WHAT IT IS FOR IN THE VERY FIRST
PARAGRAPH.
Esteban! May 11, 2011
Thank you.
I just added a condition to check that the file is not null.
foreach ($File in $Files) {
#Check for null
if ($file ne $NULL){
#writehost “Deleting Transaction LOG: $File” foregroundcolor “Red”;
RemoveItem $File | outnull
}
}
Gedadang October 23, 2011
$Now = GetDate
$Days = “9”
$TargetFolder = “\\svrmdectx12\USERS”
$LastWrite = $Now.AddDays($days)
$Files = getchilditem $TargetFolder | Where {$_.LastWriteTime le
“$LastWrite”} | sortobject LastWriteTime
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$Files
“”
$Files.count
“”
foreach ($File in $Files)
$file12 = $file.name
If ($file12 ne $null)
writehost “Deleting File $file12” foregroundcolor “Red”;
#RemoveItem $TargetFolder\$File recurse force | out
null
Else
{
“”
Writehost ” No more file to delete ”
“”
}
}
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Larry Nicholson February 1, 2012
Great stuff! Thank you
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Chris King February 1, 2012
@weaselspleen
Your right, I must have been is some mood that day. My only excuse is that there IS a lot of
untested scripts floating around in posts.
This is obviously not one of them.
Sorry, Ivan.
Ivan Versluis February 3, 2012
Dear all,
Thanks for your replies and comments. Information posted on my blog is provided AS IS. The script
worked fine within my environment. I have modified this post which was almost three years old and
made it more general then before. The initial script is still running on my Windows 2003 VM and
deleting the files.
So thanks for the feedback. Maintaining such kind of blogs requires energy and time but seeing all
of you here I am happy to do that.
With kind regards,
Ivan
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Ok
Paul Wiegmans February 6, 2012
Why do you test if a file is $Null? Why would GetChilditem return a $null file? This makes no sense
to me.
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VJ kumar February 20, 2012
Guys,
This will not work for remote computers. Admins need to manage multiple computers. Below is the
script that can be used to delete folders in multiple remote computers without having tio login to
them.
Below script will delete folders older than 15 days. you can change the $days parameter though
D$\Program Files (x86)\Research In Motion\BlackBerry Enterprise Server\Logs is the UNC path for
Blackberry Log folder. You can change the directory where your logs/folders are located.
list all your servername is servers.txt file and it should located in the same directory as this script.
#============Begin of the Script=======================
cd C:\Scripts\Powershellscripts\deletefiles —> change it to the directory you wanna out this script
to
$Days = “15”
$Now = GetDate
$LastWrite = $Now.AddDays($days)
$server = getcontent servers.txt
foreach ($node in $server)
{
getchilditem recurse “\\$node\D$\Program Files (x86)\Research In Motion\BlackBerry Enterprise
Server\Logs” | WhereObject {$_.LastWriteTime le $LastWrite} | removeitem recurse force
}
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#========End of the Script================= Ok
save the script as .ps1 and run it… You can schedule it via batch file… That why you need to add
Change Directory command at the beginning of the script..
Have fun..
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Scott D Jacovson February 29, 2012
@Chris King @Weaselspleen
You could also run the script with the whatif flag to first see what would happen. I personally tested
it by creating a simple directory structure and some blank files on my local computer before moving
into production but whatif does a treat for testing things like this.
@Ivan
While it may be >3 years old it’s still the top hit on a Google search for “delete files after x days
powershell”. It even beats out Microsoft’s own Scripting Guy whose own post is >5 years old.
Congrats on having such a popular post!
Wandrag March 5, 2012
Hi,
I need to clear out directories that contains 500k+ files in them…
By using getchilditem recurse it really takes its time…. (Stopped it after two hours…)
With nothing deleted…
Are there any faster ways?
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Drew R March 14, 2012
Now is there a way to change it to move the files to the Recycling bin instead of permanately
deleting them?
Jorge Segarra
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First off, Ivan thank you for a great and simple post. Worked for me perfectly. April 23, 2012
@VJ, not sure what you’re talking about. I just used this script against a remote system (using UNC
path) and managed to delete over 700GB of old transaction log backup files without an issue.
Eric Iverson April 24, 2012
I need to list the File Size in both email and Host listing. Any Help here?
Skye May 4, 2012
@Wandrag – I had the same issue (Jorge… you likely have large files, but not that many of them…
that is a key difference). The problem is that GetChildItem returns a full object for each file that you
are enumerating in the folder. Thus, with 500k, you are requesting a lot of information.
The solution is to NOT use GetChildItem and use [io.directoryinfo]
Try this: (NOTE: AS IS and scrapped together from a known working script of mine… the idea is
valid if it doesn’t work )
######## COPY START ########
$SrcFolder = “\\your.path\to\lots\of\files\” #can be any type of directory
$Fileage = 14 #Number of days you want to RETAIN (ie it will delete files older than this many
days)
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#set up directory info Ok
[io.directoryinfo]$dir = $SrcFolder
#Get the files that are older than your $fileage
$FileCol = ($dir.GetFiles() | Where {$_.LastWriteTime lt (GetDate).AddDays($Fileage)})
#If your source folder may contain subfolders use:
#Where {!$_.PSIsContainer and $_.LastWriteTime lt (GetDate).AddDays($Fileage)})
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#if you want a progress bar (when running interactively) uncomment the following two lines
#$i=1
#$Files2Remove = $FileCol.Count
#Get your files
Foreach($File in $FileCol)
{
#if you want a progress bar uncomment the following line
#WriteProgress Activity “Removing files older than $([system.Math]::Abs($Fileage)) days” id 1
status (“Files Processed $i of “+$Files2Remove.ToString()) percentComplete ($i /
$Files2Remove*100)
if(testpath $File.FullName)
{
removeitem path $File.FullName Force WhatIf #Comment the Whatif to actually remove the files
}
#if you want a progress bar uncomment the following line
#$i++
}
######## COPY END ########
Hope that works better for you… with 500k files nothing is going to be all that speedy.
If you’d like a quick comparison test (between gci and io.directoryinfo) run these to get your file
count:
[io.directoryinfo]$dir = $SrcFolder
measurecommand {$dir.getFiles()).count}
Measurecommand {(GetChildItem $SrcFolder).Count} #you may have to kill this one after a while,
but you should get the idea that it is slower.
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Skye May 4, 2012
PS – I missed the recurse part (I’m lucky and have no subfolders :))…
$dir.getdirectories() will give you the directories in the $srcFolder. You can use that collection to loop
through and create new directoryinfo to getfiles() with, but it really depends on how deep your
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directories go… you might need to build a recursive loop when the
$currentFolder.getDirectories().count gt 0 or something… Not sure that any of these take recurse
or if it can be worked in somewhere (to make things simple), but I haven’t looked into it… Let us
know what you find
PPS – There is a typo in my quick comparison test (grabbed an extra ‘)’ on my copy and paste)…
change:
measurecommand {$dir.getFiles()).count}
to
measurecommand {$dir.getFiles().count}
Monkey August 15, 2012
This is great. thanks. I modified it for my own purposes, of course. Love the suggestion about the
whatif flag.
Ian Gallagher September 7, 2012
Hi,
Thanks for taking the time to share this with us. How would I modify this script to hit a bunch of
computers. I need to delete old internet shortcuts from the all users desktop that are older than 6
months. I have text files with all PC names, and scripts that I usually use to copy files, but I can’t
seem to figure out how to do modify to delete files with this script.
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Cheers
Ian
Paresh
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Thanks this was a great help. September 12, 2012
I was also wondering, since I am new to PS, does anybody have idea as to how to move files from
a dynamically retrieved folder list to a list of correpsonding folders on a network location.
Rob September 13, 2012
How about modifying it to keep only the most recent 10 files, but not delete any files in
subdirectories?
npp September 20, 2012
@Rob,
not being an expert, but when the @SKYE’s script runs, it returns a collection. That collection could
be sorted, then sliced to return all the “other” files. You’d have to check the range and then slice it
accordingly. You would then erase the files you in the modified/sliced collection.
for a very gross example:
[io.directoryinfo]$x="c:\"
$xn=$x.GetFiles()
$xn_sorted = $xn | Sort‐Object ‐property LastWriteTime ‐Descending
#To select items 5 through end of the list
$xn_sorted[4..$xn_sorted.Length]
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I hope this helps Ok
Andre January 11, 2013
Here is a oneliner that does the same thing:
http://www.pohui.eu/2012/10/deletefilesandfoldersolderthan90.html
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Nchi March 5, 2013
thanks a lot guyz..
chitti May 7, 2013
works fine
Mark November 19, 2013
Hi All !
This is a really handy script. What I am looking for is a slight variation I believe. I have a number of
folders all of which contain files. I need to check the folder and each file in the folder for the
LastWriteTime. If the file is older than 14 days then move that file to an archive folder with the same
folder structure. I then need to loop through the remaining folders. I currently have a script this
script.
#Powershell Script to delete files older than a certain age
foreach($File in $Folders)
{
#age of files in days
$intFileAge = 14
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#path to clean up
$strFilePath = “F:\Scripts\Paygate”
#Set the destination of where the files move to
$PathToGo = “F:\Scripts\Paygate\Archive”
#create filter to exclude folders and files newer than specified age
Filter SelectFileAge {
param($days)
If ($_.PSisContainer) {}
# Exclude folders from result set
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ElseIf ($_.LastWriteTime lt (GetDate).AddDays($days * 1))
{$_}
}
$a = getChilditem recurse $strFilePath | SelectFileAge $intFileAge ‘CreationTime’
foreach($b in $a)
{
##moveitem $b.fullname $PathToGo
Echo “Moving $b to $PathToGo”
}
Any help would be great
Many Thanks
OldSkoolGeek February 27, 2014
This worked perfectly thank you!!
Jugal May 9, 2014
Hi I need small help i liked your script but i need to exclude some folders and files under it how can i
do that i tried like below but its not working
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—————— Ok
$Now = GetDate
$Days = “7”
$TargetFolder = “C:\amit”
$Extension = “*.txt”
$LastWrite = $Now.AddDays($Days)
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$Fldrexclude = “webserver” # Want to exclude this folder and files in it
$Files = GetChilditem $TargetFolder Include $Extension Recurse |
Where {$_.LastWriteTime le “$LastWrite”}
Where {$_.name ne $Fldrexclude}
foreach ($File in $Files)
{
if ($File ne $NULL)
{
writehost “Deleting File $File” ForegroundColor “Yellow”
RemoveItem $File.FullName | outnull
}
else
{
WriteHost “No more files to delete!” foregroundcolor “Green”
}
}
pls help
Louie August 4, 2014
This worked well for my requirements! Thank you!
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radhika August 18, 2014
hi All,
function newzipfile {
param ($zipfile)
if (!$zipfile.endswith(‘.zip’)) {$zipfile += ‘.zip’}
setcontent $zipfile (“PK” + [char]5 + [char]6 + (“$([char]0)” * 18))
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(dir $zipfile).IsReadOnly = $false
}
#define variables here
$thismonthint = getdate f “MM”
$prevmonthint = (getdate).addmonths(1).tostring(“MM”)
$thismonthstr = getdate f “MMM”
$prevmonthstr = (getdate).addmonths(1).tostring(“MMM”)
$thisyearlongint = getdate f “yyyy”
$thisyearshortint = getdate f “yy”
$thislogdir = ‘C:\rad\’
$thiszipfile = $thislogdir + $prevmonthstr + $thisyearlongint + ‘.zip’
$zipexists = testpath $thiszipfile
$Days = “30”
$Now = GetDate
$Extension = “*.log”
$LastWrite = $Now.AddDays($Days)
#$files = dir $thislogdir Recurse Include $mask | where {($_.LastWriteTime lt (Get
Date).AddDays($days).AddHours($hours).AddMinutes($mins))
#start program here
#first pass, check for .zip files of previous months. if exists exit. if not exist, create empty .zip file
if (! $zipexists)
{
echo ‘zip file does not exist, creating zip file’
newzipfile $thiszipfile
}
else
{
echo ‘zip already exists’
}
# move all log files where the month number matches the month number of the .zip file
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# Jan = 01, Feb = 02, Mar =03 etc. etc.
$file=0;
foreach($file in GetChildItem $thislogdir Include $Extension Recurse | Where {$_.LastWriteTime
le “$LastWrite”})
{
# exclude the .zip files already in the directory (just in case we get a random month match in their
filename
if (! $file.name.endswith(“.zip”))
{
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$zipfile = NewObject ComObject shell.application
$zipPackage = $zipfile.NameSpace($thiszipfile)
#$zipPackage = $ZipFile.NameSpace($zipfilename)
$zipPackage.MoveHere($file.fullname)
with this script i am not able to compress the log files with mentioned date. Please help
Sreekanth September 24, 2014
Yes , Really helped for me also….Good Work
Ross October 21, 2014
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I had been a little bit familiar of this your broadcast offered vivid transparent idea
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Altimo March 16, 2016
This works great for me !
Is there a way we can add multiple paths to the same script ? Please advise.
Thanks.
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sandy May 9, 2016
Guys ,
Need a help am trying to create a powershell script that can pick files from last 25hrs and zip it
sandy May 9, 2016
Pelase do help
#—– define parameters —–#
#—– get current date —#
$Now = GetDate
#—– define amount of days —#
$Days = "1"
#—– define folder where files are located —#
$TargetFolder = "C:\folder2"
$destination = "C:\folder3\FSO_Backup.zip"
#—– define extension —#
$Extension = "*.dll"
#—– define LastWriteTime parameter based on $Days —#
$LastWrite = $Now.AddDays($Days)
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$Files = GetChilditem $TargetFolder Include $Extension Recurse | Where {$_.LastWriteTime le Ok
"$LastWrite"}
foreach ($File in $Files)
{
if ($File ne $Files)
{
writehost "Deleting File $File" ForegroundColor "DarkRed"
AddType assembly "system.io.compression.filesystem"
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}
else
{
WriteHost "No more files to delete!" foregroundcolor "Green"
}
}
riona June 21, 2016
I ahve tried long tool path. it works 100%
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