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PowerShell: Remove Files based on date

Posted December 15th, 2008 by Matt Shadbolt

I’ve had the need to remove a bunch of differential backup images from my backup server for a short while now – and thought this was the perfect opportunity to crack into powershell. I’m going to post the script and run through the important parts: dir C:\BACKUP -recurse -exclude SERVER1,SERVER2,SERVER3,SERVER4,SERVER1.IMG,SERVER2.IMG,SERVER3.IMG,SERVER4.IMG,FileClean.PS1 | where { ((get-date)-$_.creationTime).days -ge [...]

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