\n\tThe following powershell script searches in the specified folder ($folder) and filters for a file extension if parameter ($extension).\n<\/p>\n
\n\tThe script will echo the filename and delete\n<\/p>\n
\r\n$folder = "C:\\Users" \r\n$extension = "cmd"\r\nif (!($extension)){$filter="*"} \r\nElse{$filter=foreach ($item in $extension.split(",")){$item.insert(0,"*.")}}\r\nif (test-path $folder) {\r\n foreach ($file in get-childitem "$folder\\*" -recurse -force -include $filter){\r\n write-host "Deleting file: $($file.fullname)"\r\n remove-item -literalPath $file.fullname -force \r\n } #end foreach\r\n}#end if<\/pre>\n\n\tMake sure to test the script before using it in production and distributing it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The following powershell script searches in the specified folder ($folder) and filters for a file extension if parameter ($extension). The script will echo the filename and delete $folder = "C:\\Users" $extension = "cmd" if (!($extension)){$filter="*"} Else{$filter=foreach ($item in $extension.split(",")){$item.insert(0,"*.")}} if (test-path $folder) { foreach ($file in get-childitem "$folder\\*" -recurse -force -include $filter){ write-host "Deleting file: $($file.fullname)" remove-item -literalPath $file.fullname -force } #end foreach }#end if Make sure to test the script before using it in production and distributing it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1270,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[515],"tags":[385,386,42],"class_list":["post-2140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-powershell-microsoft","tag-delete","tag-extension","tag-powershell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2140"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2835,"href":"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2140\/revisions\/2835"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}