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I would like to remove specific text files from my folder (D:\Test) using powershell script. Below are the list of files i have in my folder and need to remove files with name "Defrag" in the file name.

  1. Test.txt
  2. Log.txt
  3. Defrag_20180111.txt
  4. Defrag_20180110.txt

I need to remove the files with name "Defrag".

Thanks for your help in advance.

Pratap

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PowerShell is really powerful. This one can be done with one line:

Remove-Item -Path "pathtoyourfile\*Defrag*.txt"

And to your second question:

Get-ChildItem -Path "pathtoyourfile\*Defrag*.txt" -Force | Where-Object { !$_.PSIsContainer -and $_.CreationTime -lt (Get-Date).AddDays(-15) } | Remove-Item -Force
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Thank you, Also i how can we remove files which are 10 days older?
2nd answer now there
Is there any way we could log the list of file names into a sql table which will get deleted? Thank you very much for your quick response.
see this page on accessing sql server from powershell - technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh289310.aspx
@prathapkasthuri Please ask one question at a time and preferably show some research effort. These questions already have many answers here on SO.
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How about Get-ChildItem * -Include *Defrag* -Recurse | Remove-Item from Delete File in Subfolders Recursively by Microsoft?

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