How to Search and Delete files from a text based list with Powershell

A regular systems administrator task is to find unauthorized files on a server  and remove them.

For example, the files may be on a virus exclusion list or a list of files prohibited by the organisation.

 It’s an easy task to complete with a Powershell script. The script example uses the : Get-Content &  Get-ChildItem cmdlets to create the list of items.

The script uses the basic programming process of looping, repeating the command. The foraech statement loops through a series of values in a collection of items.

I’ve included the contents of the “c:\filelist.txt”  - with two example files. Note:The script deletes the files automatically , so be careful in implementing.

--contents of filelist.txt
---file1.txt
---file2.txt


$list = ""
$list = Get-Content "C:\filelist.txt"
$folder = Get-ChildItem -path "C:\testing\removeitem\"  -Recurse -Include $list
foreach ($i in $folder)
{
    Remove-item $i.fullname
    "Deleted file:" + $i.fullname
}

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