Powershell check files today in a directory

Question

1. i need some help with the script below, want to check the files in a particular directory with UK system date - to check if the are created today - might be files comes from different country.
2. further there may be some old files, if this is the case alert the user with number of old and new files in the folder List item
3. if there are files created from today, than copy this files to a different location
   4.if there are no files in the folder, alert user via email to say no files arrived in the directory. $Directories = "d:\test" $validfiles = gci $directories | Where {$.Length -eq 0 -and $.CreationTime.Date -ne [datetime]::Today} if (!($validfiles)) { cls
   Write-Host 'No files are found from today' Send-MailMessage -To support@contoso.com -From server@contoso.com -Subject "Something wrong" -Body $body -SmtpServer smtp.contoso.com
   }
   else
   { cls
   Write-Host 'files are found from today'
   Send-MailMessage -To support@contoso.com -From server@contoso.com -Subject "Something wrong" -Body $body -SmtpServer smtp.contoso.com }

Answer 1

This might be a starting point:

$Directories = "d:\test"

$OtherDirectory = "D:\OtherTest"
$TodaysDirectory = "D:\TodayTest"

$ThisDay = [datetime]::Today
$OtherFiles = 0
$TodaysFiles = 0
Get-ChildItem $directories | 
    ForEach-Object{
        if ($_.Length -eq 0 -and $_.CreationTime.Date -ne $ThisDay){  # What about non-zero length files?
            $OtherFiles++
            Copy-Item . . .
        }
        elseif($_.Length -eq 0 -and $_.CreationTime.Date -eq $ThisDay){  # What about non-zero length files?
            $TodaysFiles++
            Copy-Item . . .
        }
    }

if (-not $TodaysFiles){
    Clear-Host
    Write-Host 'No files are found from today, and $OtherFiles old files were found'
    Send-MailMessage -To support@contoso.com -From server@contoso.com -Subject "Something wrong" -Body $body -SmtpServer smtp.contoso.com
}
elseif($OtherFiles){
    Clear-Host
    Write-Host "found $OtherFiles old files, and $TodaysFiles current files"
    Send-MailMessage . . . 
}
else{
    Clear-Host
    Write-Host "$TodaysFiles are found from today, and $OtherFiles old files were also found"
    Send-MailMessage -To support@contoso.com -From server@contoso.com -Subject "Something wrong" -Body $body -SmtpServer smtp.contoso.com
}

Answer 2

when i run the script, i am getting this message, i would like to see the number of old files and new files names and actual numbers

$TodaysFiles are found from today, 

In my folder i got 3 files created today and nothing else.

1. your question what about the files greater than 0
   copy them into another directory and list them in a csv file and email.

Conditions i am trying

1. check if there are any files in the directory and they are from todays creation, copy to another folder, list them in csv and email
2. if there are no new files - check for old files and if found list them in csv and email
3. if no files are found. just email, saying no files are found in the folder.

   check directory not empty - the script below works but the first two conditions point 1 and point 2 need some help.

   $directoryInfo = Get-ChildItem $directories | Measure-Object
   $directoryInfo.count #Returns the count of all of the objects in the directory
   if ($directoryInfo.count -ne 0) {

All the code

}
else
{ clear-host
"Directory is empty"
}

Answer 3

here is my modified code and need some help stored the filename and cratiion date in a csv format.

$Directories = "d:\test1"

 $OtherDirectory = "D:\OtherTest"
 $TodaysDirectory = "D:\TodayTest"

 $ThisDay = [datetime]::Today
 $OtherFiles = 0
 $TodaysFiles = 0

 $directoryInfo = Get-ChildItem $directories | Measure-Object
$directoryInfo.count #Returns the count of all of the objects in the directory
if ($directoryInfo.count -ne 0)

{
 Get-ChildItem $directories | 
     ForEach-Object{
         if ($_.Length -eq 0 -and $_.CreationTime.Date -ne $ThisDay){  # What about non-zero length files?
             $OtherFiles++
             $outfile = $OtherFiles.FullName + "out" 
             #Copy-Item . . .
         }
         elseif($_.Length -eq 0 -and $_.CreationTime.Date -eq $ThisDay){  # What about non-zero length files?
             $TodaysFiles++
             #Copy-Item . . .
         }
     }

 if (-not $TodaysFiles -and -not $OtherFiles){
     Clear-Host
     Write-Host "No files are found from today and old files"
     #Send-MailMessage -To support@contoso.com -From server@contoso.com -Subject "Something wrong" -Body $body -SmtpServer smtp.contoso.com
 }
 elseif($OtherFiles){
     Clear-Host
     #Write-Host "found $OtherFiles old files, and $TodaysFiles current files"
     Write-Host "found $OtherFiles old files, and $TodaysFiles current files"
     #Send-MailMessage . . . 
 }
 else{
     Clear-Host
     Write-Host "$TodaysFiles are found from today"
     #Send-MailMessage -To support@contoso.com -From server@contoso.com -Subject "Something wrong" -Body $body -SmtpServer smtp.contoso.com
 }
 }
 else
 {
 clear-host
 Write-Host '$directoryinfo directory is empty'
 }

Answer 4

Hi，

Please try this

$Directories = "d:\test1"  
$OtherDirectory = "D:\OtherTest"  
$TodaysDirectory = "D:\TodayTest"     
$ThisDay = [datetime]::Today  
$OtherFiles = @()  
$TodaysFiles = @()     
$directoryInfo = Get-ChildItem $directories | Measure-Object  
$directoryInfo.count #Returns the count of all of the objects in the directory  
if ($directoryInfo.count -ne 0)  
{  
    Get-ChildItem $directories |   
        ForEach-Object{  
            if ($_.Length -eq 0 -and $_.CreationTime.Date -ne $ThisDay){  # What about non-zero length files?  
                $OtherFiles += $_  
                $outfile = $OtherFiles.FullName + "out"   
                #Copy-Item . . .  
            }  
            elseif($_.Length -eq 0 -and $_.CreationTime.Date -eq $ThisDay){  # What about non-zero length files?  
                $TodaysFiles += $_  
                #Copy-Item . . .  
            }  
        }          
    if (-not $TodaysFiles -and -not $OtherFiles){  
        Clear-Host  
        Write-Host "No files are found from today and old files"  
        #Send-MailMessage -To support@contoso.com -From server@contoso.com -Subject "Something wrong" -Body $body -SmtpServer smtp.contoso.com  
    }  
    elseif($OtherFiles){  
        Clear-Host  
        #Write-Host "found $OtherFiles old files, and $TodaysFiles current files"  
        Write-Host "found $OtherFiles old files, and $TodaysFiles current files"  
        $OtherFiles | Select-Object Name, CreationTime | Export-Csv -Path "$OtherDirectory\otherfiles.csv" -NoTypeInformation   
        #Send-MailMessage . . .   
    }  
    else{  
        Clear-Host  
        Write-Host "$TodaysFiles are found from today"  
        $TodaysFiles | Select-Object Name, CreationTime | Export-Csv -Path "$TodaysDirectory\todayfiles.csv" -NoTypeInformation   
        #Send-MailMessage -To support@contoso.com -From server@contoso.com -Subject "Something wrong" -Body $body -SmtpServer smtp.contoso.com  
    }  
}  
else  
{  
    clear-host  
    Write-Host '$directoryinfo directory is empty'  
}  

Best Regards,
Ian Xue

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