Outputing Remove-Item to a log file - powershell

Question

Scanning a directory for a specific set of files and sorting them by date. Keeping 7 of the LATEST copies of the file regardless of date, and removing the oldest if over 7. I am having a hard time producing a log file showing the deletes since Remove-Item has no output.
Below is a copy of my code:
$path = "C:\- Deploy to Production -\Previous Deploys\*_*_BOAWeb.rar" #BOA
$files = Get-ChildItem -Path $path -Recurse | Where-Object {-not $_.PsIsContainer}
$keep = 7
if ($files.Count -gt $keep) {
$files | Sort-Object CreationTime |
Select-Object -First ($files.Count - $keep) |
Remove-Item -Force
}

Answer 1

First off you are over complicating things. Add -Descending to your Sort command, and then change your Select to -Skip $keep. It's simpler that way. Then you have options for outputting your deleted files.
Remove-Item -Force -Verbose 4>&1 | Add-Content C:\Path\To\DeletedFiles.log
or (keeping with your current code above)
Select-Object -First ($files.Count - $keep) |Tee-Object -filepath C:\Path\To\DeletedFiles.log -append
The first will output the verbose output of Delete-Item and append it to whatever log file you specify the path for (use Set-Content if you want to replace the log instead). The second option will append the [FileInfo] objects onto a log that you specify.
Edit: As pointed out by Ansgar Wiechers, I had forgotten to to combine my verbose and stdout streams, so 4>&1 was added to the above code to correct that issue.