Erasing the Contents of a File from PowerShell

The Clear-Content cmdlet deletes the contents of an item, such as deleting the text from a file, but it does not delete the item. As a result, the item exists, but it is empty. For example, suppose you run following command:




When you execute that command the file Test.txt will still be in the folder C:\Scripts; there just won’t be any data of any kind in the file.

Wildcards are permitted with Clear-Content. Following command erases the contents of any file in C:\Scripts whose file name starts with the letter E:





You are not limited to erasing only text files. Want to delete all the data in an Excel spreadsheet:





And this command erases contents of the Word document C:\Scripts\Test.doc:





Clear-Content Aliases:

clc