Need to output command results to file

Question

Is there an easy way for me to pump the output of a series of file deletions using foreach?

Get-ChildItem -Path C:\Temp\Testing*\Beep* -Include * | foreach {$_.Delete()}

I know foreach doesn't support pipelining but I'm trying to keep this simple and am not well versed with the ForEach-Object command..

Thanks,

J

Answer 1

You can't reference .Fullname in the catch because "$ underscore" will be the error object.

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Try it like this. I highly recommend using -whatif on the Remove-Item when you are testing.

$Folders = Get-ChildItem 'C:\Users\*\AppData\Roaming\Temp*' -Recurse
""
"Folders contains {0} entries." -f $Folders.count 
""
$csv = ForEach ($File in $folders) {
    Try {
        Remove-Item $File.FullName -ErrorAction Stop -whatif 
        [PSCustomObject]@{
            Path = $File.FullName
            Action = "Removed"
            Error = ""
            }
        }
    Catch {
        [PSCustomObject]@{
            Path = $File.FullName
            Action = "NotRemoved"
            Error = $_ 
        }
    }
} 

$csv | Export-Csv C:\Temp\RR_Cleanup_Output.csv -NoTypeInformation

Answer 2

So this worked fine in test with just a couple directories thrown in, but on Server 2019 with 100's of results, it doesn't delete anything just throws the below error: Any thoughts?

"Path","Action","Error"
,"NotRemoved","Cannot bind argument to parameter 'Path' because it is null."

The initial command pulls down all the folders/files properly, but it seems somewhere the logic loop is pulling back a null value? Any thoughts?

Answer 3

Looks like it's working based on the Whatif run, thanks guys. Appreciate all the help!