Powershell Remove-Item leaving Folders Behind - powershell

Question

So I want to clean up some of my users profiles on a nightly basis using the following "script"
Get-ChildItem 'F:\View\Profiles\' -Recurse -Force |
Where-Object {$_.Directory -match 'F:\\View\\Profiles\\((\w*).V2)\\AppData\\Roaming\\Trillian\\users\\((\w*%\w*%\w*))\\logs\\(_CLOUD|ASTRA)'} |
Remove-Item -Recurse -Force
This deletes all the log files but leaves behind the folder structure. Because of that I tried the following query.
Get-ChildItem 'C:\TestProfileClean' -Recurse -Force |
Where-Object {(($_.Name -eq "logs" -and $_.Directory) -and $_.DirectoryName -match 'C:\\TestProfileClean\\(\w*.V2)\\AppData\\Roaming\\Trillian\\Users\\((\w*)%40(\w*)%2Ecom)' )} |
Remove-Item -Recurse -Force
This ensures that the folder deleted is named "logs" it is a directory and the directory name is in this format.
C:\\TestProfileClean\\(\w*.V2)\\AppData\\Roaming\\Trillian\\Users\\((\w*)%40(\w*)%2Ecom)
The problem is when I run the second command it does not delete any files, if I cut off $_.DirectoryName then I get the following output.
Directory: C:\TestProfileClean\username.V2\AppData\Roaming\Trillian\users\username%40compcorp%2Ecom
Mode LastWriteTime Length Name
---- ------------- ------ ----
d----- 12/14/2016 9:56 AM logs
Which will delete what I want but isn't specific enough for me to be comfortable running it.
What am doing wrong that is preventing folders from being deleted but the script will delete all non folder items.

Answer 1

You are missing the wildcard to go through all of them under the folder . I just modified your code :
Get-ChildItem 'F:\View\Profiles\*' -Recurse -Force |
Where-Object {$_.Directory -match 'F:\\View\\Profiles\\((\w*).V2)\\AppData\\Roaming\\Trillian\\users\\((\w*%\w*%\w*))\\logs\\(_CLOUD|ASTRA)'} |
Remove-Item -Recurse -Force
Note: I am not checking the Regex. I am only tweaking the get-childitem part.
Apart from this , I have 2 other suggestion for you. If you really want to delete the user profiles nightly basis, then you can use the small utility tools
1) made of batch
2) made of powershell.
Below are the links for your reference.
Delprof - Batch
Delprof - Powershell
Hope this helps...!!!