PowerShell Delete Files Older than 15 days or more

PowerShell Delete Files Older than 15 days or more, when there is a need to delete file older than 7 days or 15 days on the multiple remote computers here are the scripts that do the same thing.
In my example, I want to delete files under C:\apps\logs

$oldfiles = Get-childitem -path "C:\apps\logs" -directory | where-object {$_.LastwriteTime  -lt (get-date).AddDays(-15) }

#Now remove these old files

$oldfiles | Remove-Item -force - Recurse 

You can also write this in a single line code

Get-childitem -path "C:\apps\logs" -directory | where-object {$_.LastwriteTime  -lt (get-date).AddDays(-15) } | | Remove-Item -force - Recurse 

If you want to do it the same on a single remote machine,  here is how the code looks.

$oldfiles = Get-Childitem -path "C:\apps\logs" -directory | where-object {$_.LastwriteTime  -lt (get-date).AddDays(-15) }

# now you need to mention the remote machine name in the code

Remove-Item  -Path "Machine1\C$\$oldfiles" -Recurse  -Force

The above codes delete the logs file older than 15 days on the remote server Machine1

When you want Delete on Multiple remote Machines, here is how the code looks.

Let’s check it Multiple Remote Machines

we need to create one more file for storing the all the servers or multiple machines, I named it Allserver.txt storing it in my local machine c:\temp\Allserver.tx

$servers = Get-Content -Path “C:\temp\AllServer.txt” Foreach ($server in $servers) { $oldfiles = Get-Childitem -path “C:\apps\logs” -directory | where-object {$_.LastwriteTime -lt (get-date).AddDays(-15) } Foreach ($onefile in $oldfiles) { Remove-Item -Path “\\$server\c$\onefile” | -Recurse -Force -verbose } }

 

The above code deletes the files and directories under C:\apps\logs which are older than 15 days on the remote machines that you have mentioned in the text file allserver.txt.

Note: if you want to change the older file days like 7 or 30 as per your need, then you can simply change this part (get-date).AddDays(-7) or (get-date).AddDays(-30) in code.

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$servers = Get-Content -Path "C:\temp\AllServer.txt" 
Foreach ($server in $servers) 
{ $oldfiles = Get-Childitem -path "C:\apps\logs" -directory | where-object {$_.LastwriteTime -lt (get-date).AddDays(-15)
 }
 Foreach ($onefile in $oldfiles)
 { 
Remove-Item -Path "\\$server\c$\onefile" | -Recurse -Force -verbose } 
}