Just a quick note for today as I was writing an automated recursive delete function and wanted to ensure I didn’t accidently read in another script and attempt to delete any path it contained!:
Add this to the top of your script to require a mandatory “.txt” file as a parameter
[CmdletBinding()]
Param(
[Parameter(Mandatory=$true)]
[ValidateScript({$_ -match ‘[^.]\.txt+$’})] #regular expression to make sure its a text file that is being read in
[string]$inputfilepath #Read in path to text file of folders to delete
)
Explanation
[^.] Matches characters that are not a .
\. Matches a .
txt is the filetype extension we are looking for
+$ signifies this is the end of the string