Log deleted files to a text file - powershell

Question

I want to know how to log the actions from this script to a text file because I don't know how to do it as the cmdlet Start-Transcript doesn't work for me and I wasn't able to find a solution on the Internet.
The problem is that the Where-Object cmdlet doesn't output anything captured by Get-ChildItem.
Does anybody has a good idea to solve this?
$limit = (Get-Date).AddDays(-30)
$path = Split-Path -Parent $MyInvocation.MyCommand.Definition
Get-ChildItem -Path $path -Recurse -Force | Where-Object {
!$_.PSIsContainer -and
$_.LastWriteTime -lt $limit
} | Remove-Item -Force
Get-ChildItem -Path $path -Recurse -Force | Where-Object {
$_.PSIsContainer -and
(Get-ChildItem -Path $_.FullName -Recurse -Force | Where-Object {
!$_.PSIsContainer
}) -eq $null
} | Remove-Item -Force -Recurse

Answer 1

try something like this
$limit = (Get-Date).AddDays(-30)
$path =Split-Path -Parent $MyInvocation.MyCommand.Definition
Get-ChildItem $path -file -recurse -force | where LastWriteTime -lt $limit |
Tee-Object -FilePath "c:\temp\deleted.txt" -Append | Remove-Item
Get-ChildItem $path -directory |
where {(Get-ChildItem $_.FullName -file -Recurse | select -First 1) -eq $null} |
Tee-Object -FilePath "c:\temp\deleted.txt" -Append | Remove-Item

Answer 2

howdy error666,
you can use use a few different methods ...
Tee-Object = fork the stream to a file
-PipelineVariable = accumulate the info in a variable
use a loop = put a log-to-file step in it
put a ForEach-Object in the pipeline
that can both log your info and do the Remove-Item.
the loop is the easiest to understand. [grin] however, if you want to keep it in a pipeline, you could add a ForEach-Object where the Where-Object scriptblock is and put both the filter test and the various actions in that block.
take care,
lee