Removing Files older than X days

[ThePope]

Hi,

I need to find a command or tool to remove files older than an X amount of
days on a W2K host.

In UNIX I can use the find command but the NT command only has basic
parameters.

I've looked on Google to no avail.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.

 

[Madhur Ahuja]

Hi,

I need to find a command or tool to remove files older than an X
amount of days on a W2K host.

Start->Search->File and Folders->Date

 

[ThePope]

I did forget to mention that I needed it to run in a batch mode via a
scheduled job.

Basically removing some backup files which are older than 3 days on a
regular basis.

Thanks.

Hi,

I need to find a command or tool to remove files older than an X
amount of days on a W2K host.

Start->Search->File and Folders->Date

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[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Hi,

I need to find a command or tool to remove files older than an X amount of
days on a W2K host.

In UNIX I can use the find command but the NT command only has basic
parameters.

I've looked on Google to no avail.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.

xxcopy.exe can do this sort of thing. It's freely downloadable.

 

[Torgeir Bakken \(MVP\)]

Hi,

I need to find a command or tool to remove files older than an
X amount of days on a W2K host.

In UNIX I can use the find command but the NT command only has basic
parameters.

I've looked on Google to no avail.

Hi

In the article below there is a WSH script (vbscript) by Michael Harris
that deletes files x days old in a specific folder (and optionally all
subfolders).

Newsgroups: microsoft.public.scripting.wsh
Date: 2002-10-07 08:12:33 PST
http://groups.google.com/[email protected]

If you put it in a scheduled task, remove this from the script:

msgbox nDeleted & " of " & ubound(arFiles)+1 _
& " eligible files were deleted"



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