Deleting Files based on Retention Period

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Hi,

I would like some assistance to start buidling a script to delete files from specific folders based on the retention periods mentioned in the configuration file
config.xml

 [Config]
  [Retention]
    [Drive1]
      [Path]E:\PowerShell\1\Reports\Fiction\Archive[/Path]
      [Days]90[/Days]
    [/Drive1]
    [Drive2]
      [Path]E:\PowerShell\2\Reports\NonFiction\Archive[/Path]
      [Days]7[/Days]
    [/Drive2]
    [Drive3]
      [Path]E:\PowerShell\3\Reports\Bios\Archive[/Path]
      [Days]7[/Days]
    [/Drive3]
  [/Retention]
[/Config]

The script should be able to read the data from the Config file and delete all files in the folder that are equal to or greater than the time period mentioned in the tag.

Thanks

2

Please share the code you’ve written so far.

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