write a power shell script to maintain latest 5 releases and deleting all other timestamp releases i-CodePudding

$path = "D:\ProfileServiceQAT"

$Temp = "D:\\temp1"

$limit = (Get-Date).Adddays(-5)

$Folder = Get-ChildItem  $path | Where {$_.PSIsContainer} | Sort CreationTime -Descending | Select -First 5


$Folder | Copy-Item -Destination $Temp

Remove-Item   $path\* -Recurse

Move-Item $Temp\* -Destination $path

Remove-Item $Temp\* -Recurse

In this above script whenever I run this script, I am only getting empty timestamp releases into temp and then into the path without contents. Please let me know where it going wrong

CodePudding user response：

Try the below code and mark it answer, if it helps you

$path = "D:\ProfileServiceQAT"

$Temp = "D:\temp1"

$limit = (Get-Date).Adddays(-5)

$Folder = Get-ChildItem  $path | Sort CreationTime -Descending|Where {$_.LastWriteTime -ge $limit}

$Folder | Remove-Item -Recurse -Force

CodePudding user response：

As mentioned in the comments, you need to specify the -Recurse switch when you want to copy the whole directory structure with contents - otherwise it just creates the copy of the directory itself, nothing below it.

$Folder | Copy-Item -Destination $Temp -Recurse