HI, i have a folder with directories and inside of them i have log files ending with '*.log' . i need a script in windows batch that will erase all the log files that are older than a week. and keep the rest. please advise

use the XCOPY Command go to start>run>cmd and type in xcopy/? Building my Computer. 15 yr old Programmer.

We need to know your date layout. Do this: echo %date% If at first you don't succeed, you're about average. M2

M2G is right about needing to know the date layout. This used to drive me nuts at work. At first I thought the different layouts were due to different OSs on different (Win) boxes. Wrong. The default layout changes for different users on the same box. I think it depends on security privileges. Write a little program in C or whatever that always writes the date to stdout in a reasonable format. Capture it's output in batch scripts. Guy

ok i have broken my head over what you told me , i managed to look at xcopy command which gives me: XCOPY /D:m-d-y Copies files changed on or after the specified date. i have managed to get from running echo %date% the '03/20/2006' but now i need in my batch file to run xcopy lats say if i am running it today it should be XCOPY /D:03/13/2006 so it will keep my weekly log files. how the hell do i subtract 7 from the date. please advice

Any 'date math' is messy, at best. I'm still working on it. As you have guessed, 'subtracting' is anything but straightforward. For now, I can show you how to keep the newest X number of log files. Does that sound helpful? If at first you don't succeed, you're about average. M2

thanks for everything but i found another strange way to do that. i will copy everyday log file to a a daily folder then once a week i will copy that to a weekly folder and thats how i will have a backup for a week. thanks