I want to maintain current date files

Question

Delete all Files in C:\temp older than Current day(s)

$Path = "E:\Testing\Order\123456"

$CurrentDate = Get-Date

Get-ChildItem $Path | Where-Object { $_.LastWriteTime -lt $CurrentDate } | Remove-Item

I am trying to run this script but it is deleting every thing. It is not maintain current date files. Is there any modification please suggesting me sir.

Have you got any code so far? Either use filter/exclusion or on Remove-Item or Get-ChildItem in order to not process some files. — vonPryz

Jarek Danielak Jarek Danielak · Accepted Answer · 2020-05-08T08:41:21

Make sure you get the file extensions right if they have any.

Get-ChildItem -Path C:\folder1\data -Include * -Exclude text.1, folder1  -Recurse | foreach { $_.Delete()}

Edit to answer the comment:

So you want to delete all files and folders in C:\folder1 except of files text.1 and folder.1 in data, other and alpha? It means you cannot remove these 3 folders too so they have to be excluded.

Get-ChildItem -Path C:\folder1\ -Include * -Exclude text.1, folder.1, alpha, data, other  -Recurse | foreach { $_.FullName}

I want to maintain current date files

Delete all Files in C:\temp older than Current day(s)

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