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Powershell script pull files dated earlier 2017

Thiago Gonçalves Müller da Silva 1 Reputation point
2021-08-30T11:56:51.79+00:00

I need to create a powershell script to pull files and folders dated earlier than 2017, windows server 2019

Location: C:\stofs01

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  1. MotoX80 32,911 Reputation points
    2021-08-30T12:46:25.45+00:00

    File and folders have 3 date properties. CreationTime, LastWriteTime, LastAccessTime

    Here's an example using LastWriteTime. 

    $targetDate = get-date -Year 2017 -Month 7 -day 1
get-childitem -path c:\temp -recurse | Where-Object {$_.LastWriteTime -lt $targetDate}
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