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So I went with the following approach, but will consider PowerShell moving forward. I've been replacing many batch scripts with PowerShell scripts, but this batch file has several entries so I didn't want to rewrite it all at this point. &nbsp;Here's an example of two of the operations it is doing.<br><pre><code class="code-1 nolinks" id="code-20-43322963-1"><span>set count=0 &amp; for %x in (D:\backups\configFiles\*) do @(set /a count+=1 &gt;nul)</span>
<span>if %count% LEQ 10 goto skipConfigFiles</span>
<span>forfiles /P D:\backups\configFiles\ /S /M *.tar /D -30 /C "cmd /c del @PATH"</span>
<span>:skipConfigFiles</span>
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<span>set count=0 &amp; for %x in (D:\backups\Voicemail\*) do @(set /a count+=1 &gt;nul)</span>
<span>if %count% LEQ 10 goto skipVoicemail</span>
<span>forfiles /P D:\backups\Voicemail\ /S /M *.tar /D -30 /C "cmd /c del @PATH"</span>
<span>:skipVoicemail</span>
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The first code snippet I posted was meant to be used inside a batch script.<br />
There's nothing wrong with calling PowerShell from batch; forfiles is an external exe file, too.
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Lines 1 and 6 of your script above should throw errors unless run them interactively in a command prompt.<br />
In a batch script, you need double percent signs for the loop variable, so instead of &quot;%x&quot;, use &quot;<b>%%x</b>&quot;.
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Thanks for catching that error! &nbsp;I greatly appreciate it!
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I have a batch file that contains the following command to delete files older than 30 days.<pre><code class="code-1 nolinks" id="code-10-29221645-1"><span>forfiles /P D:\backups\configFiles\ /S /M *.tar /D -30 /C "cmd /c del @PATH"</span>
</code></pre>But I want to only delete files if there are more than 10 files in the folder. &nbsp;I found this code for counting the files, but can't get it to work.<br><pre><code class="code-1 nolinks" id="code-10-29221645-2"><span>for /f %%A in ('dir ^| find "File(s)"') do set cnt=%%A</span>
</code></pre>Can someone show me what I need to add to my batch file to keep the delete command from deleting if there are less than 11 files in the folder. &nbsp;In other words, if there are 10 files or less, then I want it to skip the deletion.
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I have a batch file that contains the following command to delete files older than 30 days.
forfiles /P D:\backups\configFiles\ /S /M *.tar /D -30 /C "cmd /c del @PATH"
But I want to only delete files if there are more than 10 files in the folder.  I found this code for counting the files, but can't get it to work.
for /f %%A in ('dir ^| find "File(s)"') do set cnt=%%A
Can someone show me what I need to add to my batch file to keep the delete command from deleting if there are less than 11 files in the folder.  In other words, if there are 10 files or less, then I want it to skip the deletion.

Batch file to delete files older than 30 days, but a minimum of 10 files

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Windows Batch

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