Using get-children to list files with lastwritetime

Question

With these lines of code:

get-childitem -Path d:\scripts –recurse | 
where-object {$_.lastwritetime -gt (get-date).addDays(-1)} |
Foreach-Object { $_.FullName }

I get a list of everything under the d:\scripts directory that is less than 1 day old in time stamp. Output:

D:\scripts\Data_Files
D:\scripts\Power_Shell
D:\scripts\Data_Files\BackUp_Test.txt
D:\scripts\Power_Shell\archive_test_1dayInterval.ps1
D:\scripts\Power_Shell\stop_outlook.ps1
D:\scripts\Power_Shell\test.ps1
D:\scripts\WinZip\test.wjf

The deal is, the file folders (Data_Files & Power_Shell) have a last write with in the date param. I just want the files as in lines 3 - 7 in output.

Suggestions?

Solution 1

get-childitem -Path d:\scripts –recurse |  
    where-object {$_.lastwritetime -gt (get-date).addDays(-1)} | 
    where-object {-not $_.PSIsContainer} |
    Foreach-Object { $_.FullName } 

$_.PSIsContainer is true for folders, allowing the extra where-object filters them out.

Solution 2

Try this:

dir d:\scripts –recurse | where {!$_.PSIsContainer -AND $_.lastwritetime -gt (get-date).addDays(-1)} | foreach { $_.FullName }

Solution 3

gci d:\scripts –recurse | 
  ? { $_.Attributes -band [System.IO.FileAttributes]::Archive } |
  ? { $_.LastWriteTime -gt (Get-Date).AddDays(-1) } | 
  foreach { $_.FullName }

or

gci d:\scripts –recurse | 
  ? { -not ($_.Attributes -band [System.IO.FileAttributes]::Directory) } |
  ? { $_.LastWriteTime -gt (Get-Date).AddDays(-1) } | 
  foreach { $_.FullName }

Comments

[Jaykul]

where-object {$_.lastwritetime -gt (get-date).addDays(-1) -and -not $_.PSIsContainer} ## Don't double up where-object if you don't need to :)

[Jaykul]

hehe, markdown strikes again! You have to mark your code so it doesn't get interpreted as markup :)

[Abdul Hannan Ijaz]

used your logic to make a recursive pattern for compression and removal