Delete files after conversion in Powershell - powershell

Question

I'm very inexperienced in Powershell - but through trial and error I have managed to get a .doc/.docx to .pdf conversion working well for a specified folder and all subfolders.
$wdFormatPDF = 17
$word = New-Object -ComObject word.application
$word.visible = $false
$fileTypes = "*.docx","*.doc"
Get-ChildItem -Recurse -path "C:\test-acrobat" -include $fileTypes |
foreach-object `
{
$path = ($_.fullname).substring(0,($_.FullName).lastindexOf("."))
"Converting $path to pdf ..."
$doc = $word.documents.open($_.fullname)
$doc.saveas( $path, $wdFormatPDF)
$doc.close()
}
$word.Quit()
Now I'd like to be able to delete the original .doc/.docx files once they've been converted. On doing some searching I've found what I think would work:
{
remove-item $fileTypes # delete file from file-system
}
But I'd rather check than throw in a command to delete files...
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Philip

Answer 1

I would add the delete inside the foreach loop.
So you would get:
$wdFormatPDF = 17
$word = New-Object -ComObject word.application
$word.visible = $false
$fileTypes = "*.docx","*.doc"
Get-ChildItem -Recurse -path "C:\test-acrobat" -include $fileTypes |
foreach-object `
{
$path = ($_.fullname).substring(0,($_.FullName).lastindexOf("."))
Write-Host "Converting $path to pdf ..."
$doc = $word.documents.open($_.fullname)
$doc.saveas( $path, $wdFormatPDF)
$doc.close()
Remove-Item $_.fullname
}
$word.Quit()