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Solve : DOS batch job to delete files?

Answer» <html><body><p>Need a DOS BATCH job to delete files older than 30 days Quote from: Sidewinder on August 06, 2008, 09:02:02 AM</p><blockquote>This little snippet is written in VBScript:<br/><br/> Code: <a>[Select]</a>Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")<br/>Set <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/f-236701" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about F">F</a> = fso.GetFolder("c:\scripts")            'point to your directory<br/>Set fc = f.Files<br/> <br/>For Each objFile In fc<br/> If fso.GetExtensionName(objFile) = "avi" then<br/> If objFile.DateCreated &lt; date - 5 Then <br/> WScript.Echo objFile &amp; " " &amp; objFile.DateCreated<br/> 'fso.DeleteFile(objFile)  'commented out<br/> End If<br/> End If<br/>Next<br/><br/>Save with a <strong>vbs</strong> extension and run from the command line as: <strong>cscript <em>scriptname.vbs</em></strong><br/><br/>The delete function is currently commented out. Script will currently <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/list-11333" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about LIST">LIST</a> files to be deleted. When you're ready, uncomment the delete function and comment the wscript.echo line.<br/><br/>Good luck  <br/><br/><br/></blockquote> <br/>Just change the 5 in the code to 30 and the folder to your own folder. Quote from: darther on August 19, 2010, 12:46:57 PM<blockquote>Need a DOS BATCH job to delete files older than 30 days<br/></blockquote> <br/> Quote from: darther on August 19, 2010, 12:46:57 PM<blockquote>Need a DOS BATCH job to delete files older than 30 days<br/></blockquote> <br/>( copy and <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/paste-597094" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about PASTE">PASTE</a> from this post.  See above copy for no extra backslashes. )<br/><br/>ref:<br/><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/51054/batch-file-to-delete-files-older-than-n-days">http://stackoverflow.com/questions/51054/batch-file-to-delete-files-older-than-n-days</a><br/><br/>C:\\test&gt;display   de30.bat<br/>echo off<br/>rem change \"cmd /c echo path\"  to  \"cmd /c del  path\"<br/><br/>forfiles -p \"C:\\test\"  /s /m *.bat -d -30 -c \"cmd  /c echo path\"  &gt;  30day.txt<br/><br/>rem type  30day.txt<br/><br/>type  30day.txt  | wc -l<br/><br/>echo. &gt;  out829.txt<br/>for /f \"delims=\" %%i in (30day.txt) do (<br/>dir  /s /TC /OD  %%i  |  <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/findstr" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about FINDSTR">FINDSTR</a>  \"2010\"  &gt;&gt;  out829.txt<br/>)<br/><br/>echo Display batch files older than 30 days<br/>sort  out829.txt<br/><br/>Output:<br/><br/>C:\\test&gt; de30.bat<br/>     130 files<br/>Display batch files older than 30 days<br/><br/>.<br/><br/>05/30/2010  07:06 PM             1,869 parse2.bat<br/>05/30/2010  10:35 AM                87 zoe.bat<br/>06/01/2010  05:44 PM               368 matt524.bat<br/>06/11/2010  01:28 PM             1,624 redirect.bat<br/>06/11/2010  06:09 PM               413 sib611.bat<br/>06/11/2010  06:22 PM               509 yesterdayfiles.bat<br/>06/11/2010  06:26 PM               722 dayfiles.bat<br/>06/11/2010  09:02 PM               285 trail.bat<br/>06/14/2010  01:04 PM               455 fday.bat<br/>06/14/2010  05:17 PM               253 date.bat<br/>06/14/2010  06:51 PM                81 schedule.bat<br/>06/15/2010  04:01 PM               514 nightrider.bat<br/>06/15/2010  08:45 PM             3,386 vis.bat<br/>06/16/2010  03:30 PM               768 tri.bat<br/>06/16/2010  07:26 AM               456 nrider.bat<br/>06/16/2010  08:23 AM               493 nnrider.bat<br/>06/16/2010  12:42 PM               866 pascal.bat<br/>06/17/2010  02:45 AM               143 aaron.bat<br/>06/17/2010  09:58 PM                90 slept.bat<br/>06/20/2010  06:25 PM                 0 fibbie.bat<br/>06/20/2010  06:33 PM                65 try.bat<br/>06/21/2010  05:36 PM               442 swxfer.bat<br/>06/25/2010  06:36 AM                70 ab.bat<br/>06/26/2010  08:18 PM               252 sepstr.bat<br/>06/26/2010  08:43 PM               434 spacechar.bat<br/>06/28/2010  07:42 PM               146 tend.bat<br/>06/30/2010  08:34 PM               703 bang.bat<br/>07/02/2010  09:10 PM               178 nib.bat<br/>07/02/2010  11:05 AM               744 scrpt.bat<br/>07/03/2010  06:06 PM               517 sw070410.bat<br/>07/03/2010  10:43 AM               189 st070310.bat<br/>07/04/2010  12:04 PM                61 ravi.bat<br/>07/05/2010  06:05 PM               213 project0705.bat<br/>07/05/2010  08:16 PM                91 ravi2.bat<br/>07/06/2010  06:18 AM               120 old.bat<br/>07/06/2010  08:30 PM             1,619 ski.bat<br/>07/06/2010  09:43 PM                10 test.bat<br/>07/06/2010  11:18 AM             1,604 shshi.bat<br/>07/07/2010  01:33 PM               184 numdown.bat<br/>07/07/2010  02:43 AM               210 gok.bat<br/>07/07/2010  06:27 PM               498 matt0705.bat<br/>07/09/2010  05:25 PM               538 dis1.bat<br/>07/09/2010  09:57 AM               559 dis.bat<br/>07/09/2010  11:26 PM               320 dis2.bat<br/>07/09/2010  11:54 PM               250 hope.bat<br/>07/11/2010  07:56 PM               263 only.bat<br/>07/11/2010  08:26 PM               300 xfilefor.bat<br/>07/11/2010  08:27 PM               192 xfilefromstr.bat<br/>07/11/2010  08:28 PM               164 xfiletime.bat<br/>07/11/2010  08:29 PM                58 xfiletime2.bat<br/>07/13/2010  08:46 PM                38 doni.bat<br/>07/17/2010  01:07 PM               201 blank2.bat<br/>07/17/2010  07:26 PM                88 cp.bat<br/>07/17/2010  11:44 AM               751 blank.bat<br/>07/17/2010  11:59 AM               160 clean.bat<br/>07/20/2010  07:01 PM               152 ol720.bat<br/>07/20/2010  07:10 PM               300 filefor.bat<br/>07/24/2010  11:01 AM                77 lp.bat<br/>07/25/2010  01:52 PM               702 lon.bat<br/>07/25/2010  04:39 PM               384 paw.bat<br/>07/25/2010  07:15 PM               479 paw2.bat<br/>07/26/2010  07:33 PM               449 blog.bat<br/>07/26/2010  12:45 PM               <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/140-243677" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about 140">140</a> ol726.bat<br/>07/28/2010  06:00 PM               287 id2.bat<br/><br/>C:\\test&gt;</body></html>


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