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write a script to delete files 7 da
Name: rpr986 Date: October 7, 2008 at 12:35:43 Pacific OS: WIN server 2003 CPU/Ram: ??? Product: ????
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I need to write a script that will delete files that are 7 days old, and i need this script to run once every 24 hours. Where should i start???
Name: amlife Date: October 8, 2008 at 07:43:22 Pacific
Reply:
well you can write script and schedule it to run every 7 days on directory and it will delete your "7" days old files.
batch files can help you with such task in windows environment.
and you can schedule it with windows task scheduler.
can you tell us the location of the files you want to remove and what type of files?
Thanks
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Response Number 2
Name: rpr986 Date: October 9, 2008 at 05:55:54 Pacific
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Just say the directory is D:\ftp
The files are normally word documents and sometimes excel sheets. I guess that really doesnt matter, just anything older than 7 days needs to be deleted...
thanks
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Response Number 3
Name: KReagan Date: November 3, 2008 at 21:18:16 Pacific
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You will need a copy of Microsofts robocopy installed and c:\deleted should not exist.
Schedule this to run in task scheduler every 24 hours, it is one single command line
cmd.exe /c for /f "tokens=3,4*" %I in ('robocopy d:\ftp c:\deleted *.bat *.txt /s /minage:7 /L /FP ^| find /i "new file"') do del %J
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Response Number 4
Name: KReagan Date: November 3, 2008 at 22:30:52 Pacific
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How about forfiles /p d:\ftp /m *.* /d -y /s /c "cmd /c del @path"
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Response Number 5
Name: KReagan Date: November 3, 2008 at 22:33:54 Pacific
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sorry, syntac error, should be forfiles /p d:\ftp /m *.* /d -7 /s /c "cmd /c del @path"
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Response Number 6
Name: rpr986 Date: November 4, 2008 at 05:24:33 Pacific
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What will happen to the folder if all the files in it are gone? What will happen if the folder is older than 7 days but the files are newer than 7 days?
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