Powershell with RS SSRS tools for Remove-RsCatalogItem

my goal is to do bulk deletion of SSRS reports but not all of them . ONLY reports from the $xnames should be deleted, rest of reports should stay without any changes.

Something like below:

    $xnames = @("AAA4201_Report","AAA9999_XReport","QQQ1000_Report")
    
    
        Get-RsCatalogItems -ReportServerUri $TargetReportServerUri -RsFolder '/AA' |
            # only if Report_Name in $xnames # ??????                     |    
            Remove-RsCatalogItem -ReportServerUri $TargetReportServerUri 
    
    
    ####   output of  Get-RsCatalogItems
    ID                    : ad347c46-51a8-4934-961c-b6d976f85aa9
    Name                  : AAA4201_Report
    Path                  : /AA/AAA4201_Report
    VirtualPath           :
    ...........
    ...........
    
    ####   Prompt after  Remove-RsCatalogItem    
    Confirm
    Are you sure you want to perform this action?
    Performing the operation "Delete the catalog item" on target
    "Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.NewWebserviceProxy.AutogeneratedTypes.WebServiceProxy1Reports_ReportService2010_asmx.CatalogItem".
    [Y] Yes  [A] Yes to All  [N] No  [L] No to All  [S] Suspend  [?] Help (default is "Y"):

###  Parameter list of Remove-RsCatalogItem  function
    param (
        [Alias('ItemPath', 'Path')]
        [Parameter(Mandatory = $True, ValueFromPipeline = $true)]
        [ System.Object[] ]
        $RsFolder,
        
        [string]
        $ReportServerUri,
        
        [Alias('ReportServerCredentials')]
        [System.Management.Automation.PSCredential]
        $Credential,
        
        $Proxy
    )

Alternatively I tried to use Remove-RsCatalogItem without RSGetCatalogItems, but it doesn't work. Is this possible. I can add url portion to report name out of $xnames and loop thru this list. Even without any confirmation. Something like:

Remove-RsCatalogItem -ReportServerUri $TargetReportServerUri -ReportURI(?) $xReportURL

Solution

You're looking to filter the catalog items by whether their names are contained in an array of given names ($xnames), which you can do with Where-Object:

Get-RsCatalogItems -ReportServerUri $TargetReportServerUri -RsFolder /AA | 
  Where-Object Name -in $xnames |
  Remove-RsCatalogItem -ReportServerUri $TargetReportServerUri -WhatIf

Note:

The -WhatIf common parameter in the command above previews the operation. Remove -WhatIf and re-execute once you're sure the operation will do what you want.
If you want to avoid a confirmation prompt, add -Confirm:$false.
The above Where-Object call uses simplified syntax in; it is the equivalent of:
Where-Object { $_.Name -in $xnames }