Script does not exit but loops

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Eric,
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I’d streamline your PowerShell code a little to avoid reading the directory twice but there’s actually nothing in your PowerShell code indicating that it should loop for some reason.

$CompleteFileList = 
    Get-ChildItem . -File 
$oldestDate =
    ($CompleteFileList |
        Sort-Object -Property CreationTime |
            Select-Object -First 1).CreationTime.Date
$CompleteFileList |
    Where-Object {
            $_.CreationTime.Date -eq $oldestDate
        } | 
            Remove-Item -WhatIf

It might help when you elaborate a little more how you run your code and especially why you’re running the PowerShell code from inside a batch file. That’s in the vast majority of the cases I know of unnessecary and error prone.