hello, I have a folder that I want to periodiclly clean out old folders. For example a folder is created every day that looks like 04162009. I want to keep the last 60 folders and delete any folder dated before that. I am just getting started using the SET and FOR commands and need a little help getting this one going on Win 2000. Thank in advance,

if you change your folder pattern to yyyymmdd, it would be easier to manage IMO. for /f "skip=60" %%a in ('dir/b/o-n/ad 200*') do echo delete this %%a otherwise, you might check out dir switch /od /tw /tc, however with this method i think it can lead to incorrect result. or you could parse the mmddyyyy folder name

Thanks for the reply! It gives me a good idea of what to do. FOR /F "skip=60 delims=" %%a IN ('DIR /O-D /B /AD') DO RD /S /Q "%%a" Thanks again!