Sometimes tasks sound worse than they actually are. Let’s say you need to clear a folder structure and remove all files, leaving empty folders. Let’s further assume there are files on a whitelist that should not be deleted. With PowerShell, that’s easy to accomplish:
# Task: # remove all files from a folder structure, but keep all folders, # and keep all files on a whitelist $Path = "c:\sample" $WhiteList = "important.txt", "something.csv" Get-ChildItem -Path $Path -File -Exclude $WhiteList -Recurse -Force | # remove -WhatIf if you want to actually delete files # ATTENTION: test thoroughly before doing this! # you may want to add -Force to Remove-Item to forcefully remove files Remove-Item -WhatIf
