I am trying to write a batch script that moves all files from one network folder to another network folder. On the destination folder, I need to delete any files older than 3 days from after the move occurred. So if they files were moved on 1/8/07, they need to be deleted after 1/11/07. Here's what I have so far:

@echo on&setlocal ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION
echo %*|fs /c:"Database backed up:"||exit 1
move x:\*.* y:\

The move is not working with this script, and I didn't know how to acquire the date stamp for the deletion. Thanks!!

What is this line trying to do and what is fs?

echo %*|fs /c:"Database backed up:"||exit 1

Basically 'deleting older than' entails 'date math' and if you cruise through the last few hundred msgs, you'll see that no one has had much luck.

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The line
echo %*|fs /c:"Database backed up:"||exit 1
just basically echos out some information about the database being backed up. If I could just get the move part working, that would be fine. I was trying to use a For statement and I came up with something like this:
for %%B in (X:\ABC\*.BAK) do (move %%B Y:\USA Backup)
This line works in a live DOS session, but does not work when I run the script. Thanks!

I still don't get what's up with fs and exit.

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If at first you don't succeed, you're about average.

M2