How to pipe a directory name into Remove-Item? - powershell

Question

I'm not very savvy with powershell, so any help is appreciated.
I have a drive that holds users profiles. I need to remove a specific file from each user's profile. It's structured something like this. (Names changed to protect the innocent.)
E:\Profiles
UserID
Documents
OtherFolders
DirectoryToDeleteFrom
FileToDelete.txt
UserID2
...
...
I could use the following command to delete all of the files I need to get to, but it's unbearably slow as it's recursing through all of the other folders under UserID.
#this one would work perfectly, but is terribly slow
Get-ChildItem -Path E:\Profiles -Include FileToDelete.txt -Recurse
I know exactly where each file resides, so I thought that I could do this.
(Get-ChildItem -Path 'E:\Profiles' -Exclude *.lnk)|ForEach-Object{Remove-item -path 'E:\Profiles\' + $_.Name + '\Path\To\File\FileToDelete.txt'}
But I get the following error message:
Remove-Item : A positional parameter cannot be found that accepts
argument '+'. At line:1 char:70
+ (Get-ChildItem -Path 'E:\Profiles' -Exclude *.lnk)|ForEach-Object{Remove-item ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : InvalidArgument: (:) [Remove-Item], ParameterBindingException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : PositionalParameterNotFound,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.RemoveItemCommand
I thought it was because I was passing Remove-Item a bad file path, but the following command generates the correct paths.
(Get-ChildItem -Path 'E:\Profiles' -Exclude *.lnk)|ForEach-Object{'E:\Profiles\' + $_.Name + '\Path\To\File\FileToDelete.txt'}
So what am I doing wrong here?

Answer 1

If you construct a string on the fly to be used inline, by another command, then put brackets around the path:
..{Remove-item -path ('E:\Profiles\' + $_.Name + '\Path\To\File\FileToDelete.txt')}