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is there a way to automatically answer NO to All in a powershellscript

is there a way to automatically answer NO to All in a powershellscript
I made a script to automatically delete files older than 7 days and empty folders.
But sometimes I get the question "Confirm
The item at Microsoft.PowerShell.Core\FileSystem::xxxxxx has
children and the Recurse parameter was not specified. If you continue, all children will be removed with the item. Are you sure you want to continue?
I want to automaticaaly answer NO to ALL on this... but I can't seem to find how to do this...

the script I use is...

	$foldersfile = ".\folders.csv"
	$folderpaths = Import-CSV $foldersfile -delimiter ";"

        ForEach ($folderpath in $folderpaths){
                $path=$folderpath."folderpath"
                do{
                       Get-ChildItem -Path $Path -Filter 'thumbs.db' -Force -Recurse |   remove-Item -force
                       $dirs = gci $path -directory -recurse | Where { (gci $_.fullName).count -eq 0 } | select -expandproperty FullName
                       $dirs | Foreach-Object { Remove-Item $_ }
                       #delete the thumbs.db files
                       write-host "folder done"
                       Get-ChildItem -Path $path -Recurse | Where-Object {($_.LastWriteTime -lt (Get-Date).AddDays(-7))} | remove-Item
                       write-host "files done"
                } while ($dirs.count -gt 0) #end doWhile
        }#end foreach

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oBdA

Should be enough to add the -File argument to the second Get-ChildItem, since you're only looking for files there anyway, and testing against a folder's LastWriteTime doesn't really work.
But other than that, you should delete the files first, then the empty folders. There's no need to check the folder again and again for files.
Try it like this:

$foldersfile = ".\folders.csv"
$folderpaths = Import-CSV $foldersfile -delimiter ";"

$daysAgo = (Get-Date).AddDays(-7)
ForEach ($folderpath in $folderpaths) {
	$path = $folderpath."folderpath"
	# delete the thumbs.db files
	Get-ChildItem -Path $Path -Filter 'thumbs.db' -Force -Recurse | Remove-Item -Force
	Write-Host "thumbs.db done"
	# delete old files
	Get-ChildItem -Path $Path -File -Recurse | Where-Object {$_.LastWriteTime -lt $daysAgo} | Remove-Item -Force
	Write-Host "files done"
	While ($emptyDirs = Get-ChildItem -Path $path -Directory -Recurse | Where-Object {(Get-ChildItem -Path $_.FullName).Count -eq 0} | Select-Object -ExpandProperty FullName) {
		$emptyDirs | ForEach-Object {Remove-Item -Path $_}
		Write-Host "folder done"
	}
}

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Filip Heens

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thanks oDdA also ;-)