how we can remove files in the azure fileshare for specific time span?

Question

How can we delete files in an Azure file share for a specific time span? for example, if I have one file share of 1 TB of data I want to remove files created before 2019 or 2020. Is there a command that can perform this task? Can you share it with me?

Answer 1

Hello @Zain Ul Abideen,

Welcome to the MS Q&A platform.

A similar thread has been discussed here.

You can leverage the below script to delete the files for a specific time span.

I hope this helps. Please let me know if you have any further questions.

connect-azaccount
$accountName = '<accountname>';
$accountKey = '<accountkey>';
$myshare = '<file sharename >';


 // Delete old files

    $filelist = az storage file list -s $myshare --account-name $accountName --account-key $accountKey
    $fileArray = $filelist | ConvertFrom-Json
    foreach ($file in $fileArray | Where-Object {$_.properties.lastModified.DateTime -lt ((Get-Date).AddDays(-90))})
    {
        $removefile = $file.name
        if ($removefile -ne $null)
        {
            Write-Host "Removing file $removefile"
            az storage file delete -s $myshare -p $removefile
        }
    }