Script to check files at a server for a certain time - powershell

Question

I'd created below script to check files remaining at a particular path in server.
I've below question please help me out.
How to change file.CreationTime to 12 hours format.
How to export the entire contents to file or email.
Kindly help me in fine tuning the below script
$fullPath = "\\server\D$\fn_1"
$numdays = 0
$numhours = 0
$nummins = 1
function ShowOldFiles($path, $days, $hours, $mins)
{
$files = #(get-childitem $path -include *.* -recurse | where {($_.LastWriteTime -lt (Get-Date).AddDays(-$days).AddHours(-$hours).AddMinutes(-$mins)) -and ($_.psIsContainer -eq $false)})
if ($files -ne $NULL)
{
for ($idx = 0; $idx -lt $files.Length; $idx++)
{
$file = $files[$idx]
write-host ("File Name: " + $file.Name, ", Pending Since : " + $file.CreationTime) -Fore Red
}
}
}
ShowOldFiles $fullPath $numdays $numhours $nummins

Answer 1

To dump to a file, replace your whole for loop with this:
$files | select-object Name,#{name="Pending Since";Expression={$_.CreationTime}}|export-csv -notypeinfo -path c:\output.csv;
This will produce a CSV file with all of your files listed, along with their creation time. Save the formatting for your final delivery/presentation to the user (in this case, you could format the columns in Excel & then save as XLSX).
To send via email, you'll probably want to convert it to HTML.
$filesForEmail = $files | select-object Name,#{name="Pending Since";Expression={$_.CreationTime}} | convertto-HTML;
send-mailmessage -to RECIPIENT -from FROM -subject "Your file listing" -body $filesForEmail -BodyAsHTML -smtpserver smtp.yourcompany.com

Answer 2

You can format the CreationTime value by running it through get-date and using the -format command and the standard DateTime formatting options (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.globalization.datetimeformatinfo(VS.85).aspx). Try this line:
write-host ("File Name: " + $file.Name, ", Pending Since : " + $(get-date $file.CreationTime -format "dddd, MMMM d, yyy h:mm tt")) -Fore Red
The main bit here is replacing $file.CreationTime with $(get-date $file.CreationTime -format "dddd, MMMM d, yyy h:mm tt"). That is a fairly standard date/time format with 12 hour formatting. You could get more detailed if you wanted and define the format earlier and only put out relevant info (such as, if days = 0 exclude that from the date format).