{"id":73551,"date":"2015-09-04T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-04T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2015\/09\/04\/powertip-use-powershell-to-clean-up-temp-files\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T09:35:21","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T16:35:21","slug":"powertip-use-powershell-to-clean-up-temp-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-use-powershell-to-clean-up-temp-files\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Use PowerShell to Clean Up Temp Files"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b style=\"font-size:12px\">Summary<\/b><span style=\"font-size:12px\">: Use Windows PowerShell to delete temporary files.<\/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 clean up a bunch of files that are stored in my temp directory?<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><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;<b>Get-ChildItem<\/b>&nbsp;cmdlet (<b>dir<\/b>&nbsp;is an alias), point it to the&nbsp;<b>$env:temp<\/b>&nbsp;directory, and pipe the results <br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;to the&nbsp;<b>Remove-Item<\/b>&nbsp;cmdlet, for example:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">dir $env:TEMP -Recurse | Remove-Item -Force -Recurse<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\" alt=\" \" \/><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to delete temporary files. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to clean up a bunch of files that are stored in my temp directory? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Get-ChildItem&nbsp;cmdlet (dir&nbsp;is an alias), point it to the&nbsp;$env:temp&nbsp;directory, and pipe the results &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;to the&nbsp;Remove-Item&nbsp;cmdlet, for example: dir $env:TEMP -Recurse | Remove-Item [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[356,3,45],"class_list":["post-73551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to delete temporary files. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to clean up a bunch of files that are stored in my temp directory? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Get-ChildItem&nbsp;cmdlet (dir&nbsp;is an alias), point it to the&nbsp;$env:temp&nbsp;directory, and pipe the results &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;to the&nbsp;Remove-Item&nbsp;cmdlet, for example: dir $env:TEMP -Recurse | Remove-Item [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73551","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=73551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73551\/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=73551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}