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by ppoll 1 view

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I'm trying to set up a batch file to automatically delete files in a temporary directory and it's subdirectories on the network. But I only want it to delete anything that hasn't been modified in over a month. Is there any way to do this with dos commands, or is there someother way to do it? I'm not really too familiar with DOS.

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by p.j.hutchison

You be best using VBScript (you need WSH installed to run VBS files) and use the FileSystemObject so that you can manipulate files etc.

by carquiza

Here is a vb script below.

Option Explicit
Dim fso
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
DeleteFiles fso.GetFolder("C:\Test") '<----- Change this folder name to match with your case.
Sub DeleteFiles(srcFolder)
Dim srcFile
If srcFolder.Files.Count = 0 Then
Wscript.Echo "No File to Delete"
Exit Sub
End If
For Each srcFile in srcFolder.Files
'If DateDiff("d", Now, srcFile.DateCreated) < -7 Then
fso.DeleteFile srcFile, True
'End If
Next
Wscript.Echo "Files Deleted successful"
End Sub

Hope this helps.

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