Hi People, Please help me with the DOS code to delete files older than 15 days. i will schedule the batch file then. We are doing this to delete older backup files and preserve latest files only to save on disk space. Please Help soon Regards, Jheds

We've been on the subject of 'date math' many times, with no joy. A more fruitful approach would be to keep the most recent X number of files. ===================================== If at first you don't succeed, you're about average. M2

Hi there Mechanix How will we keep the most recent X number of files. Please help me with the entire Batch script. its an urgent issue u see. Thanks in anticipation, Regards, Jheds

This will keep the most recent 5 in the current directory. You will want to modify it to suit where your backups are. ::== keep5.bat @echo off setLocal EnableDelayedExpansion for /f "tokens=* delims=" %%A in ('dir /b/a-d/o-d') do ( set /a kept+=1 echo !kept! if !kept! geq 6 call :sub1 %%A ) goto :eof :sub1 echo del "%*" goto :eof :: DONE ===================================== If at first you don't succeed, you're about average. M2

Hey Mechanix, Thank you so much for your valuable time and the solution provided. It works perfect and I am so grateful to you man :) thanks again and take care Jheds