Delete Files Older Than X Days: Presentation of Data/Logging Files - powershell

Question

I'm new to Powershell, I'm creating a code to delete a file/s if more than "x" days.
I'm almost done. Need your help in representing my date (table) and should not produce a log file if no files will be delete.
Here's my code:
$max_days = "-30"
$curr_date = Get-Date
$del_date = $curr_date.AddDays($max_days)
$Path = "C:\Desktop\Code"
$DateTime = Get-Date -Format "D=yyyy-MM-dd_T=HH-mm-ss"
$itemsearch = Get-ChildItem C:\Test -Recurse | Where-Object { $_.LastWriteTime -lt $del_date}
Foreach ($item in $itemsearch)
{
Write "File:", $item.Name "Modified:", $item.LastWriteTime "Path:", $item.FullName "Date Deleted:" $del_date | Out-File "C:\Desktop\Code\Deleted\SFTP_DeleteFiles_WORKSPACE_$DateTime.txt" -append
$item | Remove-Item
}
Can anyone please help me? It's already working by the way.
Just need to present the data in table form and don't create a log file if there's nothing to delete.
Update:
Already solved the condition statement by doing:
if($itemsearch)
{
Foreach ($item in $itemsearch)
{
Write "File:", $item.Name "Modified:", $item.LastWriteTime "Path:", $item.FullName "Date Deleted:" $del_date | Out-File "C:\Desktop\Code\Deleted\SFTP_DeleteFiles_WORKSPACE_$DateTime.txt" -append
$item | Remove-Item
}
}
else
{
Write "No files will be deleted."
}
Thanks!
What I want to display it in Excel/Text file is like this one:
http://i59.tinypic.com/30wv33d.jpg
Anyone?
It returns me with this one:
IsReadOnly;"IsFixedSize";"IsSynchronized";"Keys";"Values";"SyncRoot";"Count"
False;"False";"False";"System.Collections.Hashtable+KeyCollection";"System.Collections.Hashtable+ValueCollection";"System.Object";"4"
False;"False";"False";"System.Collections.Hashtable+KeyCollection";"System.Collections.Hashtable+ValueCollection";"System.Object";"4"
False;"False";"False";"System.Collections.Hashtable+KeyCollection";"System.Collections.Hashtable+ValueCollection";"System.Object";"4"
False;"False";"False";"System.Collections.Hashtable+KeyCollection";"System.Collections.Hashtable+ValueCollection";"System.Object";"4"
In Excel. Do you have any idea? I have to search it though.

Answer 1

To introduce tabular logging I would use a CSV file as output by replacing your foreach block by this code:
$results = #()
foreach ($item in $itemsearch)
{
$success = $true
try
{
$item | Remove-Item
}
catch
{
$success = $false
}
if( $success -eq $true )
{
Write-Host $item.FullName 'successfully deleted.'
$results += [PSCustomObject]#{'File'=$item.Name;'Modified'=$item.LastWriteTime;'Path'=$item.FullName;'Date Deleted'=$del_date;'State'='SUCCESS'}
}
else
{
Write-Host 'Error deleting' $item.FullName
$results += [PSCustomObject]#{'File'=$item.Name;'Modified'=$item.LastWriteTime;'Path'=$item.FullName;'Date Deleted'=$del_date;'State'='ERROR'}
}
}
$results | Export-Csv -Path "C:\Desktop\Code\Deleted\SFTP_DeleteFiles_WORKSPACE_$DateTime.csv" -Encoding UTF8 -Delimiter ';' -NoTypeInformation
First an empty array is created ($results).
The try/catch block is here to detect if the deletion succeeded or not, then the appropriate line is added to $results.
At the end the $results array is exported to CSV with ';' separator so you can open it right away with Excel.