Question:
I got the the following code from stack overflow and it works fine.
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$TargetFolder = “Pathofyourfolder” $Files = Get-ChildItem $TargetFolder -Exclude (gc List.txt) -Recurse foreach ($File in $Files) { write-host “Deleting File $File” -foregroundcolor “Red”; Remove-Item $File | out-null } |
Now I want to delete the files with file names on the list. I tried some variations of the above such as replacing Exclude with Include but without success. Can anyone help please?
Answer:
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$targetFolder = "D:\TEST_123" $fileList = "D:\DeleteList.txt" Get-ChildItem -Path "$targetFolder\*" -Recurse -Include @(Get-Content $fileList) | Remove-Item -Verbose |
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-Include to work you should specify \* at the end of a folder name and filename with extension in your deletion list. The code above works for me, deleting only specified files in folder and all of its subfolders.
I also used -Verbose instead of foreach and Write-Host.