remove contents of a file path older than 30 days.

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The following should do the trick... just adjust the maxage variable and pathtoclean to match the path you want.

@echo off
:: set cleanup path
set pathtoclean=c:\abc\logs
 
:: set the max age in days
set maxage=30
 
:: remove files from %pathtoclean%
forfiles -p %pathtoclean% -m *.* -d -%maxage% -c "cmd  /c del /q @path"
 
:: clean up subfolders %pathtoclean%
forfiles -p %pathtoclean% -d -%maxage% -c "cmd /c IF @isdir == TRUE rd /S /Q @path"

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jbgobert, would you modify your script to delete folders starting with 2 only?

There are a lot of subfolders we want to remove start with 20130101, 20130102......

Thanks everyone.

Are these subfolders under the path C:\abc\logs ?

Examples:

c:\abc\logs\20130101

c:\abc\logs\20130102

If so, you still want to delete the contents and the folder itself, correct? Are there any additional subfolders under the date-named folders?

Let me know and I'll post an update shortly.

ASKER

That's correct. The c:\abc\logs folder has a lot of subfolders starting with 2013........

The thing is there are other system folders in c:\abc\logs which we do not want to touch and exclude those.

Thanks.

Here's the update. If you look at line 9 you'll see %pathtoclean%2* in the FOR loop's filter. The 2* causes only folders starting with 2 should be included. If you wanted to expand that to be 2013 then it would be %pathtoclean%2013*. Make sense?

@echo off

:: set cleanup path
set pathtoclean=C:\abc\logs\
 
:: set the max age in days
set maxage=30

FOR /F %%i in ('DIR /b /ad %pathtoclean%2*') DO SET FOLDER_NAME=%%i & CALL :SUB_CLEANUP %FOLDER_NAME%

:SUB_CLEANUP

SET FULL_PATH = %pathtoclean%%FOLDER_NAME%
FORFILES /P %FULL_PATH% /M *.* /D -%maxage% /C "CMD /C ECHO Y | DEL @PATH")
FORFILES /P %FULL_PATH% /D -%maxage% /C "CMD /C IF @isdir == TRUE RMDIR /S /Q @PATH")

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ASKER

No good. I am seeing this when I run:

File Not Found
ERROR: Invalid syntax. Value expected for '/P'.
Type "FORFILES /?" for usage.
ERROR: Invalid syntax. Value expected for '/P'.
Type "FORFILES /?" for usage.
Press any key to continue . . .

What's the OS you're running this on?

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