Deleting certain files + output to screen in one line?

• henrik.bernhard

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  August 26, 2009 at 2:29 pm

  #209977

  I've been trying to get a "oneliner" to work for the purpose of traversing through a directory, finding all files with a certain extension, property, lastaccess or what else is useful

  I would then want the script to delete the files and also output which files are deleted

  I created a directory C:\powershell\ with few subdirectories just for the testing.

  The below works fine just for deleting, but I haven't been able to work out how to get a list of which files have been deleted into the same code.

  Get-ChildItem c:\powershell -recurse | where {$_.Extension -eq ".mp3"} | ForEach ($_) {Remove-Item $_.fullname -WhatIf}

  Anyone got any pointers?

• henrik.bernhard

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  August 27, 2009 at 12:51 am

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  found the solution - just posting it here in case it can help somone in the future

  Get-ChildItem c:\powershell -recurse | where {$_.Extension -eq ".mp3"} | ForEach ($_) {$_.fullname; Remove-Item $_.fullname -WhatIf}

  Just found the option to add 2 actions seperated with semicolon to the foreach statement: