I am trying to make a script in powershell to delete all folders in C:\Temp which contains a *.sr_processed file.
I already have this but this only deletes the file and not the folder it was in.
Get-ChildItem -Path C:\Temp -Include *.sr_processed -File -Recurse | foreach { $_.Delete()}
Your are telling it to delete the file. To delete the folder do something like:
Get-ChildItem -Path C:\Temp -Include *.sr_processed -File -Recurse | foreach { Remove-Item –path $_.Directory.Fullname}
If you have multiple .sr_processed files in a folder it might attempt to delete it more than once. And generally deleting a folder you are globbing is bad practice. So a better idea would be to gather up the folders in a list/hash and delete them at the end.
That would look something like:
# declare array
$foldersToDelete = @()
# fill array with folder names
Get-ChildItem -Path C:\Temp -Include *.sr_processed -File -Recurse | foreach { $foldersToDelete += $_.Directory.Fullname}
# sort and make unique
$foldersToDelete = $foldersToDelete | Sort-Object | Get-Unique
# delete folders
$foldersToDelete | Remove-Item –path $_
This is typed from memory, so you might want to adjust it.
