Remove-hard drive, cant pass a string to it, is there another way?

I was thinking of using Get-hard drive and then channelling it to Remove-hard drive, but I don't know how to get only the text VMDK * wink *. The below script used to work a few months ago, I'm not sure what has changed, no upgrade were made.

The code in question:

$DisksToRemove = (get - VM VM1, VM2, VM3 |) Get - Harddisk)

foreach ($disk in $DisksToRemove)

{

if($Disk.) Filename-comme "* wink *")

{

Remove-hard drive - HDD $disk. Filename-confirm: $false

Write-Host "Removed:"-to the first 'green' plan ".

Write-Host $disk. File name

}

}

In addition, you could add this to your existing code and it should work

$DisksToRemove = (get - VM VM1, VM2, VM3 |) Get - Harddisk)

foreach ($disk in $DisksToRemove)

{

if($Disk.) Filename-comme "* wink *")

{

$disk: Remove-hard drive - confirm: $false

Write-Host "Removed:"-to the first 'green' plan ".

Write-Host $disk. File name

}

}

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