PowerShell – How to Write ‘%’ Symbol

In PowerShell the if statement can be used as an expression:

$i = 'HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL10_50.MSSQLSERVER'
$SQLPaths = @{
   'DefaultData'= if (Test-Path "$i\MSSQLServer") { 
                     (Get-ItemProperty "$i\MSSQLServer").DefaultLog
                  } else {
                     $null
                  };
   'RepWorking'=(Get-ItemProperty "$i\Replication").WorkingDirectory
}

Also if you're using the PowerShell Community Extensions (PSCX) it adds a Invoke-Ternary (alias ?:) function which could make this less verbose:

$i = 'HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL10_50.MSSQLSERVER'
$SQLPaths = @{
   'DefaultData'= ?: {Test-Path "$i\MSSQLServer"} `
                     { (Get-ItemProperty "$i\MSSQLServer").DefaultLog } `
                     { $null };
   'RepWorking'=(Get-ItemProperty "$i\Replication").WorkingDirectory
}

Below is what you need. The problem you were having is that you weren't providing the correct path. Since you are using -Recurse, the path $Path\$($File.Basename).zip is not always correct, for it is correct only if the file is an immediate child of $Path.

$path = "C:\logs"
Get-ChildItem $path\*.pdf -Recurse | ForEach-Object {
    if( Test-Path "$($_.DirectoryName)\$($_.Basename).zip" ) {
        Remove-Item "$($_.DirectoryName)\$($_.Basename).pdf"
    }
}