Updated PowerShell script to loop through files for printing.

After finishing my script from the previous post I thought there has to be a better way to write this and reduce the lines of code. Not that 5 separate lines is a lot. But, if the list of items to print grew larger say to 15 documents, and was in different subdirectories then it might get complicated. So, I set about trying to find a way to use the ForEach-Object cmd. After some trial and error I have come up with this.
$Directory = “\\SVR1\DATA\Reports\Trading\”
Get-ChildItem -path $Directory -recurse -include *.pdf | ForEach-Object {Start-Process -FilePath $_.fullname -Verb Print -PassThru | %{sleep 10;$_} | kill }

This will loop through the “Trading” directory and all subdirectories and print out the pdf documents it finds. The one thing I still want to refine is the ability to close out Acrobat. Right now it closes Acrobat after printing each document only to reopen it again for the next document. I will look into just closing it at the end one time. But for now this is at least a decent working script I plan to get a lot of use out of.
Next
Use the -Recurse option on the Get-ChildItem command to get through to the files in the sub folders and then move each individually by piping the collection to Move-Item
Get-ChildItem -Path “C:\Test” -Recurse |
Where-Object {$_.LastWriteTime -lt (Get-date).AddDays(-31)} |
Move-Item -destination “C:\Dumps”