As an integration engineer I have log files that provide me an audit trail so I can track things down when they go astray. \u00a0Now this is fine and well but what happens when you’ve had an integration in place since 2007 and never needed to look at those files? \u00a0Yes you’ve got 5 years worth of files that are taking up space on the drive. \u00a0To\u00a0alleviate the issue you can use Powershell to clear the directories of any files over a certain age. \u00a0Here is the code on how to do it:<\/p>\n
\r\n# Delete all Files in the TCC Archives over 60 days old\r\n$Path = "C:\\Taleo\\TCC\\Prod\\Export\\AirlandRequisition\\Archive"\r\n$Daysback = "-60"\r\n$CurrentDate = Get-Date\r\n$DatetoDelete = $CurrentDate.AddDays($Daysback)\r\nGet-ChildItem $Path -Recurse | Where-Object { $_.LastWriteTime -lt $DatetoDelete } | Remove-Item\r\n\r\nclear-variable -name Path\r\nclear-variable -name Daysback\r\nclear-variable -name CurrentDate\r\nclear-variable -name DatetoDelete\r\n\r\n$Path = "C:\\Taleo\\TCC\\Prod\\Export\\AppTrackCSW\\Archive"\r\n$Daysback = "-60"\r\n$CurrentDate = Get-Date\r\n$DatetoDelete = $CurrentDate.AddDays($Daysback)\r\nGet-ChildItem $Path -Recurse | Where-Object { $_.LastWriteTime -lt $DatetoDelete } | Remove-Item\r\n\r\nclear-variable -name Path\r\nclear-variable -name Daysback\r\nclear-variable -name CurrentDate\r\nclear-variable -name DatetoDelete\r\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As an integration engineer I have log files that provide me an audit trail so I can track things down when they go astray. \u00a0Now this is fine and well but what happens when you’ve had an integration in place since 2007 and never needed to look at those files? \u00a0Yes you’ve got 5 years […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","author-aron"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4bBkH-2i","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asberry.org\/blog_tech\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asberry.org\/blog_tech\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asberry.org\/blog_tech\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asberry.org\/blog_tech\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asberry.org\/blog_tech\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/asberry.org\/blog_tech\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144,"href":"https:\/\/asberry.org\/blog_tech\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions\/144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asberry.org\/blog_tech\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asberry.org\/blog_tech\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asberry.org\/blog_tech\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}