{"id":3387,"date":"2013-06-17T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-17T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2013\/06\/17\/powertip-find-files-modified-during-a-date-range-by-using-powershell\/"},"modified":"2013-06-17T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-17T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-find-files-modified-during-a-date-range-by-using-powershell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-find-files-modified-during-a-date-range-by-using-powershell\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Find Files Modified During a Date Range by Using PowerShell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong style=\"font-size: 12px\">Summary<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 12px\">: Use Windows PowerShell to find files that were modified during a specific date range.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/q-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Question\" \/>&nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to find all files modified during a specific date range?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/a-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Answer\" \/>&nbsp;Use the&nbsp;<strong>Get-ChildItem<\/strong>&nbsp;cmdlet to collect the files, filter it to the&nbsp;<strong>Where-Object<\/strong>&nbsp;cmdlet, specify the date for the&nbsp;<strong>LastWriteTime<\/strong>&nbsp;property, and set greater than and less than parameters:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 150px\">dir | ? {$_.lastwritetime -gt &#8216;6\/1\/13&#8217; -AND $_.lastwritetime -lt &#8216;6\/11\/13&#8217;}<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px\"><strong>Note&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;dir&nbsp;<\/strong>is an alias for the&nbsp;<strong>Get-ChildItem<\/strong>&nbsp;cmdlet, and the&nbsp;<strong>?<em>&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong>character is an alias for the&nbsp;<strong>Where-Object<\/strong>&nbsp;cmdlet. Windows PowerShell automatically converts &lsquo;6\/1\/13&rsquo; into a date for this operation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to find files that were modified during a specific date range. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to find all files modified during a specific date range? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Get-ChildItem&nbsp;cmdlet to collect the files, filter it to the&nbsp;Where-Object&nbsp;cmdlet, specify the date for the&nbsp;LastWriteTime&nbsp;property, and set greater than and less than parameters: dir [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[356,3,45],"class_list":["post-3387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to find files that were modified during a specific date range. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to find all files modified during a specific date range? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Get-ChildItem&nbsp;cmdlet to collect the files, filter it to the&nbsp;Where-Object&nbsp;cmdlet, specify the date for the&nbsp;LastWriteTime&nbsp;property, and set greater than and less than parameters: dir [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}