powershell check file date and send email

Question

HI
i would like to find a PS that check files on a folder and if there is a new file (from today) i will get email with the name of the file

this is what i had found for now

$folder ="c:\test"

$FolderToday = "D:\test2\today"
$FolderNew = "D:\test2\new"
$FolderOld = "D:\test2\old"
$TodaysFiles = @()
$NewFiles = @()
$OldFiles = @()
$folderFiles = Get-ChildItem -Path $folder -Recurse -File | select Name,CreationTime #| Where-Object {$.Name }#-in $files}
$folderFiles | ForEach-Object {
if($.CreationTime.Date -eq [datetime]::Today)
{
$tk=Write-Output $folderFiles | select name,CreationTime
Write-Host -ForegroundColor Yellow "today"
$name= Write-Output $folderFiles
#send-MailMessage -From 'files@Mohammad aBu Dayeh .com' -To 'tk@tharun .com' -Subject "'new file arrived today ' " -Body $tk

                                 }  

 
 else  
        {  
            $OldFiles += $_  
            Write-Host -ForegroundColor White "not today"  
        }  

}

Answer 1

Hi @Tulik23 K ,

maybe this helps:

$today = (Get-Date).ToString('yyyyMMdd')  
$allFiles = Get-ChildItem -Path .\Junk  
foreach ($file in $allFiles) {  
  if ($file.CreationTime.ToString('yyyyMMdd') -eq $today) {  
    Write-Output "File $($file.Name) has beens created on $($file.CreationTime)"  
  }  
  else {  
    Write-Output "$($file.Name) has been created before today"  
  }  
}  

Or just a little shorter:

$today = (Get-Date).ToString('yyyyMMdd')  
Get-ChildItem -Path .\Junk | ForEach-Object {  
  if ($_.CreationTime.ToString('yyyyMMdd') -eq $today) {  
    Write-Output "File $($_.Name) has beens created on $($_.CreationTime)"  
  }  
  else {  
    Write-Output "$($_.Name) has been created before today"  
  }  
}  

If this doesn't work for you please post your script here to see the details and running the script for testing. Please use the Code Sample - Ctrl-K option in the editor (the icon with 101010 ) to post scripts here. The Q&A editor is screwing up script code in the normal editor window.
Also if you get an error message the content of the message would be helpful.

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Regards
Andreas Baumgarten

Answer 2

Hi @Tulik23 K ,

there are a "few" approaches around:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/61378568/powershell-script-check-modified-date-of-files-send-email-if-changed
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/a248b325-6585-4e81-b1f1-a04c7c4226f6/check-creation-date-on-file-and-send-email-if-it-doesnt-match-current-date?forum=winserverpowershell
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/438696/powershell-check-files-and-creation-time-and-alert.html
https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/2269476-check-folder-for-modified-files-and-email-if-file-date-changed

These should hopefully help to get this done.

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(If the reply was helpful please don't forget to upvote and/or accept as answer, thank you)

Regards
Andreas Baumgarten

Answer 3

Thanks
the second one was the close to what i need,
i tried to modify it so that i will be able to see the name of the file also not only the date
( iknow its a small modification , but cant figure it :) )
$creationdates = Get-ChildItem -Path c:\test |Select-Object -ExpandProperty CreationTime
here it takes only the CreatinTime and when i tried to add
"$creationdates = Get-ChildItem -Path c:\test|select Name,CreationTime #|Select-Object -ExpandProperty CreationTime"
it failed

thanks

Answer 4

thanks all

this is what i did finnaly

$file = "c:\test"

if($file = Get-Item $file -ErrorAction 0){
if($file.CreationTime.Date -ne [datetime]::Today)
{
Write-Host 'File is not from today'

Send-MailMessage -SmtpServer <String> -Subject <String> -From <String> -To <String>

send-MailMessage -From 'files[@](/users/na/?userId=8b217f85-7ffe-0006-0000-000000000000).com' -To 'tk[@](/users/na/?userId=8b217f85-7ffe-0006-0000-000000000000).com' -Subject "'New File Arrived '" -Body $cd  
}  

else
{
Write-Host 'File is from today'
}

}