DOS Batch - Deleting files older than a week

Hi, this may have been covered however I cant seem to find what im looking for.

At present I have:



This works well for deleting all the files withing the Scans folder.

I want to adapt this now so it deletes only the files that are 1 week old.

How would I change the code to achieve this?

Thanks in advance

jmcall10

I would recommend getting the FORFILES.EXE from the Resource Kit tools released from Microsoft, then you can just do this:

FORFILES -pc:\foldername -s -m*.* -d-30 -c"CMD /C del @FILE"

-p = path
-s = include subdirs
-m = match filetype
-d = age in days (can also be set as an absolute date ie DDMMYYYY)
-c = command to execute

Note there are no spaces between the switches and their arguments.

http://www.dynawell.com/support/ResKit/winnt.asp

Hmm, this is on a work computer so wont be able to install anything

Is there another way that I can do this?

thanks for your response

I'm afraid it would be a lot harder to do with batch ... have you looked into doing VBS or something? That'd be simple enough...

ive never touched vb scrpiting.

How would I code the same thing in vbscript?

Thanks in advance

jmcall10