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    Good evening.

    I have a question about Powershell script.

    I want to create a script to delete files after 3 days but I don't want to delete files of the first day, 15th and 30 or 31 from each month. I have this:

    Get-Childitem B:\TEST\*.txt | 
Where-Object 
{ $_.LastWriteTime –lt (get-date).AddDays(-3) }| 
Remove-Item -Force

    Greetings,.


    Carlos Márquez
    San Pedro Sula
    Honduras


    Friday, December 22, 2017 8:37 PM

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    Finally, I have this:

    Get-ChildItem -Path "B:\TEST" | 
Where-Object { 
($_.LastWriteTime.Day -eq ([datetime]::Today.Day - 4)) -and 
($_.LastWriteTime.Month -eq [datetime]::Today.Month -or $_.LastWriteTime.Month -eq [datetime]::Today.Month -1) -and 
($_.LastWriteTime.Day -notin(1,15,[datetime]::DaysInMonth($_.LastAccessTime.Year,$_.LastAccessTime.Month))) -and 
$_.Extension -eq '.rar' } |Remove-Item -Force


    Carlos Márquez
    San Pedro Sula
    Honduras

    Thursday, December 28, 2017 10:49 PM

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    perform a foreach on all file returned, determine the age in days, and apply a switch statement?
    Friday, December 22, 2017 9:00 PM
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    Where-Object{([datetime]::Today - $_.LastWriteTime).Days -gt 3 -and $_.LastWriteTime.Day -notin (1, 15, 30,31)}

    \_(ツ)_/

    • Proposed as answer by BOfH-666 Saturday, December 23, 2017 4:07 AM
    Friday, December 22, 2017 10:55 PM
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    Hi,
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    Monday, December 25, 2017 8:46 AM
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    Hi, JRV.

    Thanks for help me.

    I only have an observation in your answer, when I said 30 or 31 I'm talking about that I don't want to delete files from the last day of the month.

    Greetings,

    Carlos Márquez
    San Pedro Sula
    Honduras

    Tuesday, December 26, 2017 1:54 PM
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    Then you need to test each file date independently for last day.

    $_.LastWriteTime.Month -eq $_.LastWriteTime.AddDays(1).Month

    \_(ツ)_/


    • Edited by jrv Tuesday, December 26, 2017 2:03 PM
    Tuesday, December 26, 2017 2:03 PM
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    Another more complicated method is:

    $_.LastWriteTime -ne [datetime]::DaysInMonth($_.LastWriteTime.Year,$_.LastWriteTime.Month)

    Note that the last day can be 28,29,30,31.  Don't forget February and leap years.

    \_(ツ)_/


    • Edited by jrv Tuesday, December 26, 2017 2:09 PM
    Tuesday, December 26, 2017 2:09 PM
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    I think is something like that:

    Where-Object{([datetime]::Today - $_.LastWriteTime).Days -gt 3 -and $_.LastWriteTime.Day -notin (1, 15, [datetime]::DaysInMonth($_.LastWriteTime.Year,$_.LastWriteTime.Month))}

    Can work in this way?

    Greetings,

    Carlos Márquez
    San Pedro Sula
    Honduras

    Tuesday, December 26, 2017 2:23 PM
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    Finally, I have this:

    Get-ChildItem -Path "B:\TEST" | 
Where-Object { 
($_.LastWriteTime.Day -eq ([datetime]::Today.Day - 4)) -and 
($_.LastWriteTime.Month -eq [datetime]::Today.Month -or $_.LastWriteTime.Month -eq [datetime]::Today.Month -1) -and 
($_.LastWriteTime.Day -notin(1,15,[datetime]::DaysInMonth($_.LastAccessTime.Year,$_.LastAccessTime.Month))) -and 
$_.Extension -eq '.rar' } |Remove-Item -Force


    Carlos Márquez
    San Pedro Sula
    Honduras

    Thursday, December 28, 2017 10:49 PM