Anyone knows how to delete all temp files using powershell.
Get-ChildItem $env:TEMP\TEMP | Remove-Item -confirm:$false -force -Recurse
I tired this code but it couldn't work.
Can you suggest me any better way to perform the same.
If you don't want to see any errors, you could use the -ErrorAction switch like this:
Remove-Item -Path $env:TEMP\* -Recurse -Force -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
To empty TEMP folder and leave the folder in place, you should use this command:
Remove-Item $env:TEMP\* -Recurse
If you don't want to type so much, you can use also shorter version:
rm $env:TEMP\* -r
Just use this:
Remove-Item -Path $env:TEMP -Recurse -Force
Of course you will get access errors if any of the files you are deleting are actually being used by the system.
I'm running PS as LOCAdmin and run following command
PS C:\Windows\system32>$tempfolders = #(“C:\Windows\Temp\*”, “C:\Windows\Prefetch\*”, “C:\Documents and Settings\*\Local Settings\temp\*”, “C:\Users\*\Appdata\Local\Temp\*”)
PS C:\Windows\system32>Remove-Item $tempfolders -force -recurse
works for me :)
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I want to deleted all the files in the temp folder... any .zip files , .txt files and any folder files including whatever is inside each of those folders (everything). I thought this would be simple but so far my script keeps getting the confirmation pop-up asking if I want to delete all these child items. I tried using -confirm:$false but that doesn't seem to work. I appreciate any suggestions. Thank you.
$list = Get-ChildItem -directory "C:\temp\*" -Include * -Name
get-childitem c:\temp -Include #(get-content $list) | Remove-Item -Force -whatif
I tried using the -confirm:$false argument as well as the -force with no luck.
You want -path vs -directory.
#Looking for Temp under Windows:
$list = (Get-ChildItem -path "C:\*\Temp*\*.*").FullName | Remove-Item -Force
#Looking for Temp under Root:
$list = (Get-ChildItem -path "C:\Temp*\*.*").FullName | Remove-Item -Force
If your Temp dirs have subs you could also add the -recurse switch.
To avoid confirmation requests add the parameter -confirm:$false. If you want to include everything don't specify the parameter -include * - the default is to return everything, no need to slow down due to unecessary filters.
just do:
get-childitem -path C:\temp -directory | remove-item -force -confirm:$false -recurse
btw. u did specify the parameter -directory, currently only directories are returned by get-childitem, so files directly stored in C:\temp would remain.
I have problems with deleting my node_modules and vendors folders.
I want to delete them all from computer, I found various of ways on internet and nothing helped actually.
This actually does delete them:
FOR /d /r . %d in (node_modules) DO #IF EXIST "%d" del -f "%d"
but it's asking me every time to type Y in cmd.
Is there any way of doing it with one command in cmd or git bash or powershell? I'm using windows 10.
You can do the following in PowerShell:
Get-ChildItem -Path . -Recurse -Directory -Filter 'node_modules' |
Remove-Item -Recurse -Confirm:$false -WhatIf
Just remove the -WhatIf parameter to do the actual deletion
If you want to target multiple folders recursively, you can do the following:
# Example 1: Using variable for readability
$folders = 'node_modules','vendors'
Get-ChildItem -Path . -Recurse -Directory -Include $folders |
Remove-Item -Recurse -Confirm:$false -WhatIf
# Example 2: Not using variable
Get-ChildItem -Path . -Recurse -Directory -Include 'node_modules','vendors' |
Remove-Item -Recurse -Confirm:$false -WhatIf
I have heard that there could be a performance issue with using -Recurse and -Include together. I have never seen it myself, but keep that in mind if you have a large directory structure and see a performance degradation.
I am new to the power shell scripting. I am trying to delete all files except one folder and one file. I run this script by using jenkins it showing error called " Windows PowerShell is in NonInteractive mode. Read and Prompt functionality is not available." And i am trying to run this script in powershell window but it asking Confirmation [Y/N]. I need to run this script by using jenkins please help me.
$Path = "C:\TeamCity\buildAgent2\work"
$exclude = #("*.old", "*directory.map")
Get-ChildItem $Path -Exclude $exclude | Remove-Item -Force -Confirm:$false -ErrorAction Stop| echo Y
You need to add the Recurse parameter to the remove command.
Like that:
Remove-Item -Recurse -Force
guiwhatsthat is correct your code should like this;
$Path = "C:\TeamCity\buildAgent2\work"
$exclude = #("*.old", "*directory.map")
Get-ChildItem $Path -Exclude $exclude | Remove-Item -Recurse -Force -Confirm:$false -ErrorAction Stop
I would like to zip a path (with a service windows running inside).
When the service is stopped, it works perfectly, when the service is running, I have the exception:
The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another
process.
However, when I zip with 7-zip, I don't have any exception.
My command:
Compress-Archive [PATH] -CompressionLevel Optimal -DestinationPath("[DEST_PATH]") -Force
Do you have any idea to perform the task without this exception?
Copy-Item allows you to access files that are being used in another process.
This is the solution I ended up using in my code:
Copy-Item -Path "C:\Temp\somefolder" -Force -PassThru |
Get-ChildItem |
Compress-Archive -DestinationPath "C:\Temp\somefolder.zip"
The idea is that you pass through all the copied items through the pipeline instead of having to copy them to a specific destination first before compressing.
I like to zip up a folder's content rather than the folder itself, therefore I'm using Get-ChildItem before compressing in the last line.
Sub-folders are already included. No need to use -recurse in the first line to do this
A good method to access files being used by another process is by creating snapshots using Volume Shadow Copy Service.
To do so, one can simply use PowerShells WMI Cmdlets:
$Path = "C:/my/used/folder"
$directoryRoot = [System.IO.Directory]::GetDirectoryRoot($Path).ToString()
$shadow = (Get-WmiObject -List Win32_ShadowCopy).Create($directoryRoot, "ClientAccessible")
$shadowCopy = Get-WmiObject Win32_ShadowCopy | ? { $_.ID -eq $shadow.ShadowID }
$snapshotPath = $shadowCopy.DeviceObject + "\" + $Path.Replace($directoryRoot, "")
Now you can use the $snapshotPath as -Path for your Compress-Archive call.
This method can also be used to create backups with symlinks.
From there on you can use the linked folders to copy backed up files, or to compress them without those Access exceptions.
I created a similiar function and a small Cmdlet in this Gist: Backup.ps1
There was a similar requirement where only few extensions needs to be added to zip.
With this approach, we can copy the all files including locked ones to a temp location > Zip the files and then delete the logs
This is bit lengthy process but made my day!
$filedate = Get-Date -Format yyyyMddhhmmss
$zipfile = 'C:\Logs\logfiles'+ $filedate +'.zip'
New-Item -Path "c:\" -Name "Logs" -ItemType "directory" -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
Robocopy "<Log Location>" "C:\CRLogs\" *.txt *.csv *.log /s
Get-ChildItem -Path "C:\Logs\" -Recurse | Compress-Archive -DestinationPath $zipfile -Force -ErrorAction Continue
Remove-Item -Path "C:\Logs\" -Exclude *.zip -Recurse -Force
I am not understanding what is happening.
I am attempting to copy and paste dll's from one directory and another.
gci -path $FromPath -Include ("*.dll", "*.pdp") | ? {$_.Name -match "appMaskA|appMaskB|appMaskC"} | foreach{Copy-item $_.Fullname -destination $ToPath -force}
Now that command works for one function that I have it in, but not for this one...
Now, this command is moving dll's to a different server. Not certain why it isn't working.
And if it isn't working it should throw an exception. I did wrap that command in a try catch by the way? Should I be catching a specific exception?
What does your $ToPath look like? If your code is wrapped in try/catch add -ErrorAction Stop parameter to your copy statement as the default value is to continue so the catch block will never be executed.
gci -path $FromPath -Include ("*.dll", "*.pdp") | ? {$_.Name -match "appMaskA|appMaskB|appMaskC"} | foreach{Copy-item $_.Fullname -destination $ToPath -force -ErrorAction Stop}
Does this need to be Powershell or can you use XCOPY via a BASH/CLI script. Using XCOPY you can access C Drive by doing
SERVER.DOMAIN.LOCAL/c$/path/to/dll
Maybe this works for you:
gci -path $FromPath -Include *.dll,*.pdp | where {$_.Name -match "appMaskA|appMaskB|appMaskC"} | Copy-item -path $_ -destination $ToPath -force
For complicated and/or large copying jobs I would use the program robocopy. Robocopy is part of Windows. Execute this command to verify its location:
Get-Command robocopy|select path