Reading temporary data from workstations

Question

Good morning,
First I'm not a programmer, I write some code but looping gets me one loop is easy two loops gets me.  I will first explain what I'm trying to do and then show you my code.
I'm trying to write a script to clean temporary files on workstations, they do not want this to run this as a logon or logoff script thus complicating matters as I cannot use variables to clean up the user profiles on these remote workstations.  This
will be run every Sunday.
$a = Get-Content "C:\CSD\Scripts\PLSCAAD_PC_List_Test.csv"
#foreach ($i in $a)
# {Remove-Item "\\$i\c$\temp\*" -force -recurse}
#foreach ($i in $a)
# {Remove-Item "\\$i\c$\windows\temp\*" -force -recurse}
foreach ($i in $a)
{Get-ChildItem "\\$i\c$\users" | Where-Object {$_.PSIsContainer} | Foreach-Object {$_.Name}}
The problem I'm having is storing that last Get-Childitem into a variable.  If I put a $USERPROFILE= in front of that I get an error.  I need to store that list of directories of users into a variable and then write a for each statement
against it.  My goal is to clear different temp directories from the users profile.  The rest of the directories are not a problem.
I know that code isn't the cleanest...  I would prefer not to have so many loops in there, but I'm not that good at this sort of thing.  I've managed to be more of a hardware/server admin guy.  I write simple scripts that for example to pull
BIOS versions or serials from our servers but we have got other software now that does some of this stuff, although I do write scripts still for drive space.  It's really these loops, I don't know why I have such a block with them but the light bulb has
not gone off yet.
Thanks in advance,
Tim

Answer 1

Give this a try:
Get-Content .\computerList.txt | ForEach {
$computerName = $_
$props = @{
ComputerName = $computerName
Online = $false
DeletedFiles = ''
If (Test-Connection -ComputerName $computerName -Count 1 -Quiet) {
$props.Online = $true
try {
Get-ChildItem "\\$computerName\c$\Temp\" -Recurse | Remove-Item -Force
Get-ChildItem "\\$computerName\c$\Windows\Temp" -Recurse | Remove-Item -Force
Get-ChildItem "\\$computerName\c$\Users\*\AppData\Local\Temp" -Recurse | Remove-Item -Force
$props.DeletedFiles = $true
} catch {
$props.DeletedFiles = $false
New-Object PsObject -Property $props
} | Sort ComputerName | Select ComputerName,Online,DeletedFiles
Rename your input CSV to computerList.txt.
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