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Solved Forfiles Change Error Message

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December 10, 2015 at 05:50:30
Specs: Windows 10 Pro x64, I7-5820k Haswell-E 6-core @3.3 ghz | 16 GB DDR4
Hello everyone,
When issuing a forfiles command and there are no results it will display the message ERROR: No files found with the specified search criteria Is it possible to change the error message within my batch file to something like "There are no files older than 1 week"?

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December 11, 2015 at 11:44:17
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Consider the following:
forfiles /d +14 2> nul || echo Something went wrong

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December 11, 2015 at 13:06:13
Hello Razor2.3,
Thank you. This accomplishes what I need.

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