PS to query CSV and delete files

[Neally]

@mrudella

I need some recursive script that will go through all subfolders located on D: and delete all matching files listed in the CSV file.

You want to do that the other way around.

For PowerShell to enumerate all files over and over again, it’s going to take forerever.

What you should do istead is

1. Get all the files on D: (get-childitem “D:” -recurse)

2. when run the CSV against the gathered data. (import-csv , foreach, where-object, -contains, etc.)

That should be pretty straight forward, give it a try.

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