I am looking for a script that can ignore the timing and utilise just the date to move files after 1 day, so yesterday, to an archive folder.

My knowledge of powershell is not great so any advice on how i can do this would be great.

Everyday i run a script that generates a .txt report which has a filename .....2022 01 02 (The filename ends with the date) so would like to add some extra lines that archives the .txts that were created yesterday to an archive folder.

CodePudding user response：

The [datetime] type has a Date property that gives you the date at midnight, thereby allowing you to compare dates without taking the time component into account:

# Construct datetime value describing yesterday at midnight
$yesterday = (Get-Date).AddDays(-1).Date

# Filter files based on date of the `CreationTime` property
$filesCreatedYesterday = Get-ChildItem -Path .\path\to\folder -File |Where-Object { $_.CreationTime.Date -eq $yesterday }

$filesCreatedYesterday will now contain the files created yesterday