How to List Files By Date in PowerShell

To list files by date in PowerShell, you can use the Get-ChildItem cmdlet and sort the output based on the LastWriteTime property.

The following method can list files in a directory by date in PowerShell.

Method 1: List files by date in PowerShell

Get-ChildItem -Path $directoryPath -File | Sort-Object -Property LastWriteTime | Select-Object Name,LastWriteTime

In this example, it returns the files sorted by LastWriteTime in a directory.

The following example shows how to use this method with syntax.

How to List Files By Date in PowerShell

Use the Get-ChildItem cmdlet to retrieve all the files from the specified directory and pipe them to the Sort-Object cmdlet to sort file objects by the LastWriteTime property.

The following example shows how to do it with syntax.

# Specify the directory path
$directoryPath = "C:\temp\modbus-tcp-master\modbus-tcp-master\"

Get-ChildItem -Path $directoryPath -File | Sort-Object -Property LastWriteTime | Select-Object Name,LastWriteTime

Output:

PowerShell list all files by date — PowerShell lists all files by date

In the above output, we can see that it lists all the files by date in ascending order.

Conclusion

I hope the above article on how to list all files by date in PowerShell is helpful to you.

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