Simple W2K Script Help Please 1

[Donkey1]

My knowledge of scripting is very basic and would like to ask for some help if it is possible.

What I would like to do is run a simple script (.bat file) on 2 W2K machines that would automatically delete some files that are over a certain date old e.g. any file over 2 months old.

The files are always held in the same dir and always have the same extension .bak

Would be grateful if some one could point me in the right direction.

Thanks....Andy.

 

[Grenage]

You could try this, it's freeware and easy enough to use:

http://www.michna.com/software.htm#DelOld

 

[tsuji]

Hello Donkey1,

You can use forfiles.exe from resource kits. Look at its help file or issue
[tt]forfiles -?[/tt]
for syntax.

For instance, to [1] delete *.txt files [2] in certain path d:\test [3] including subdirectories for files [4] with date more than 30 days old from today, the line in the batch is something like this:

forfiles -pd:\test -s -m*.txt -d-30 -c"%comspec% /c del @FILE"

regards - tsuji

 

[Donkey1]

Thanks guys for your help.

Tsuji, your cmd line script did the trick - works a charm!