Remove old files script

Jan-Philip Gehrcke. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Later versions of Windows and Windows Server have it installed by default. For Windows 7 and newer including Windows 10 : The syntax has changed a little.

FZs Russell: PATH is the full path, including name. FILE is only the name, so if you're dealing with subfolders, it won't work. This answer works when "older than 7 days" is defined as "modified more than 7 days ago" rather than "created more than 7 days ago". How can the latter be achieved? Show 22 more comments. David Tonhofer Iman Iman 6 6 silver badges 2 2 bronze badges. For the most part, this is a fairly impractical answer.

If I have a directory with lots of data in it, there is will not work well. I'd go with one of the answer that does it "in place" — adamb0mb. As robocopy is really robust, it will in fact work for any directory size, obscure file names, basically arbitrary path lengths and include directories if you need it to - something which surely cannot be said about many other Windows utilities.

Plus, robocopy does support UNC paths - which forfiles from the accepted answer won't do. My thoughts were more along the lines: "My files are already where I want them. I don't want to have to move them. Don't overload Robocopy to do it" — adamb0mb. Show 2 more comments. Ok was bored a bit and came up with this, which contains my version of a poor man's Linux epoch replacement limited for daily usage no time retention : 7daysclean.

Change : if! I hope this helps. Jay Jay 1, 15 15 silver badges 14 14 bronze badges. Way late and totally unrelated, but 7daysclean. Sathyajith Bhat Arno Jansen Arno Jansen 2 2 silver badges 2 2 bronze badges. Same error as in other answers including the accepted one. It only matches files with.

The OP never said anything about requiring. AnT: Are you sure? This MS documentation page - technet. Background on the 5 wildcards in Windows: blogs. Show 1 more comment. Community Bot 1 1 1 silver badge. James e. James k 39 39 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. And the only question I have: how to add multiple mask for example ". Viktor Ka Viktor Ka 3 3 silver badges 5 5 bronze badges. This even works in Windows Server and above and Windows 7.

First, the tables: Days since UTC for each year including leap days. Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year with days: 0 31 59 90 Year with days: 0 31 60 91 Converting a date to number of seconds since is quite easy using those tables.

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Promoting, selling, recruiting, coursework and thesis posting is forbidden. Students Click Here. Does anyone know how to script the deletion of old files? Thanks in advance. Hello richardrekos, You can consider using forfiles. I'm Brad, and I'm nearing 20 years of experience with Linux. I've worked in just about every IT role there is before taking the leap into software development. Visit my blog or find me on Twitter to see what I'm up to.

Your email address will not be published. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Deleting Files with rm First up, the rm command. Making it into A Script Rather than typing this out, you could make it into a script! Scheduling Deletion of Old Files If you want to run the command automatically at a set interval, add it to your crontab.