Hi all,

i'm new to PS. I have to write a script which clean up log files. All files from the same date shoud be ziped in one file. Files of the actual date shoud not be ziped. My filter works, but i don't know how to use it for genearation of zip files.

My code snippet:

Function GetOldFiles
{

$TargetFolder = "C:\MyTestData"

if (Test-Path $TargetFolder)
{

$Now = Get-Date -f 'yyyy-MM-dd'

$MyArray =  Get-ChildItem $TargetFolder |  
    Where-Object {!$_.psIsContainer -and $_.name -like "*.log" -and $_.name -ne "Boot.log" -and $_.LastWriteTime  -lt $Now} |
    Group-Object {'{0:yyyy"-"MM"-"dd}' -f $_.LastWriteTime} | Sort-Object Name

#Display the Array to check the filter
$MyArray

}
Else
{Write-Host "The Folder $TargetFolder Does Not Exist!"}
}

GetOldFiles

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Any clues to my problem are welcome. Many thanks for your help.

;) Carlos Di Vega

 

I recommend checking out PowerShell Community Extensions (PSCX): http://www.codeplex.com/PowerShellCX. There is a Write-Zip cmdlet included with it, among a ton of other things.

As Hal suggested, I'm cretaing the zip files using write-zip which is a part of the PowerShell Community Extensions (PSCX);

$old = (get-date).addDays(-1)
$TargetFolder="C:\MyTestData"

if ( -not (Test-Path $TargetFolder)){
   throw "directory doesn't exist"
   break
}

$files = Get-ChildItem $TargetFolder\* -filter *.log -exclude Boot.log | where {$_.lastWriteTime -lt $old} | group {$_.lastWriteTime.toString('yyyy-MM-dd')}

foreach($g in $files){
 $archiveName = "{0}\{1}.zip" -f $TargetFolder,$g.name
 write-zip -path $g.group -level 9 -OutputPath $archiveName 
}

You can add the -removeoriginal parameter to write-zip if you want to delete the original files.

 

Hi Hal, hi Shay!

Many thanks for your help. You gave me exact the needed answer.

;) Carlos Di Vega