PowerShell Scripts

Question

Does anybody know if there's some way to delete items from an SPList using PowerShell scripting?

If is this possible, has anybody any good tutorial?

Thanks!!!

Answer 1

Since you can access the object model it's pretty straight forward

asnp microsoft.sharepoint.powershell
$web = Get-SPWeb http://thesite/
$list = $web.Lists["NameOfList"]
$item = $list.GetItemById(1) 
$item.Delete()

Answer 2

Here's the example.

Quote from link:

Delete Item -

The example below will count the items and loop down, read the name of the item, and if the item contains a 3, then it will delete that item.

[System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("Microsoft.SharePoint")
$site = new-object Microsoft.SharePoint.SPSite("http://test.tomdaly.com") # is a legit url
$relweburl = "/Docs"
$web = $site.openweb($relweburl)
$list=$web.Lists["testList"] $listItems = $list.Items
$listItemsTotal = $listItems.Count

for ($x=$listItemsTotal-1;$x -ge 0; $x--)
{
    if($listItems[$x].name.Contains("3"))
    {
        Write-Host("DELETED: " + $listItems[$x].name)
        $listItems[$x].Delete()
    }
}