Dos Scripting issue

[JoJoGabor]

If you do actually want to do this in DOS, the attrib command can be useful to set the archive bit on files older than a certain date. Then use DELETE to delete all files with archive bit set.

[vetran]

Dos scripting 2 sites worth using

Rob van der Woude's Scripting Pages

SS64.com Command line reference

[blacjac]

forfiles /p "<directory>" /s /m *.* /d -30 /c "cmd /c echo @file >= "cleardown.txt" | del @file"

Will delete files older than 30 days in <directory> and report it into cleardown.txt

[Toad]

Try the Forfiles command. If it's not on the server it can be found in the Resource Kit.

[VectraMan]

Ay Carumba!

Surely you can use WSH? That's got to be easier than "DOS" (it hasn't been DOS for a long time).

If it was me I'd write a C++ console app to do what I want. Usually quicker than trying to find an existing solution.

[aceboy]

Afternoon, I have a grim task, I have to write a script that will purge file older than a define date on a window server, I am not able to install perl, cygwin or anything remotly useful

I have been trawling the net & found this, however it is not working.... It trys to delete everything in the folder regarless of the date :-s

It is in output mode at the moment as opposed to delete mode

The input paratemeters are:

USAGE:
DELOLD /r X Y Z

/r option provides a recursive file search

X is the number of days previous to Today.
Y is the directory to search
Z is the a filter for files to search. This argument is optional
and defaults to *.* (all files)

Examples:
"DELOLD 5 C:\temp" Deletes files older than 5 days
in C:\temp
"DELOLD /r 5 C:\temp" Deletes files older than 5 days
in C:\temp and any of its
subfolders
"DELOLD 5 C:\temp *.txt" Deletes text files older than 5
days in C:\temp

Any ideas where ther error is??

:: --------DELOLD.BAT----------
@echo off


:: test to see if first arg exists
SET ARGTEST=%1
IF NOT DEFINED ARGTEST GOTO SYNTAX

:: initialize variable to control whether or not a
:: recursive file search is done in the TARGETDIR
::
SET RECURSIVE=FALSE


:: check to see if recursive switch was passed
IF %1==/r (
SET RECURSIVE=TRUE
SHIFT
)

:: files older than this date will be deleted
SET OLDERTHAN=%1
IF NOT DEFINED OLDERTHAN GOTO SYNTAX

:: the directory containing files to be deleted
SET TARGETDIR=%~f2
IF NOT DEFINED TARGETDIR GOTO SYNTAX

:: filter for files to delete
SET FILELIST=%3
IF NOT DEFINED FILELIST (
SET FILELIST=*.*
)

:: make sure TARGETDIR ends with a '\' for consistency
IF NOT %TARGETDIR:~-1%==\ SET TARGETDIR=%TARGETDIR%\


:: for testing
:: echo %RECURSIVE%
:: echo %OLDERTHAN%
:: echo %TARGETDIR%
:: echo %FILELIST%


:: get current date--ignore the first token which provides day of week
for /f "tokens=2" %%i in ('date /t') do set thedate=%%i

:: get date substrings
set mm=%thedate:~3,2%
set dd=%thedate:~0,2%
set yyyy=%thedate:~6,4%

:: initialize day and month of olderthan date current year is assumed
set /A dd=%dd% - %OLDERTHAN%
set /A mm=%mm% + 0


goto DAYTEST



:: +--------------------------------------------------------------------+
:: | test day value to see if month and/or year need to be altered |
:: +--------------------------------------------------------------------+
AYTEST

:: if olderthan date falls in current month
if /I %dd% GTR 0 goto DONE

:: adjust olderthan date to previous month and move to loop to id month
set /A mm=%mm% - 1
if /I %mm% GTR 0 goto ADJUSTDAY

:: changes an olderthan month of 0 to 12 and subtracts one from olderthan year
:: before forwarding to loop to id month
set /A mm=12
set /A yyyy=%yyyy% - 1

goto ADJUSTDAY



:: +------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
:: | id month and send to loop to adjust day value to account for month change |
:: +------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
:ADJUSTDAY
if %mm%==1 goto SET31
if %mm%==2 goto LEAPCHK
if %mm%==3 goto SET31
if %mm%==4 goto SET30
if %mm%==5 goto SET31
if %mm%==6 goto SET30
if %mm%==7 goto SET31
if %mm%==8 goto SET31
if %mm%==9 goto SET30
if %mm%==10 goto SET31
if %mm%==11 goto SET30
if %mm%==12 goto SET31

:: month value is out of range
goto ERROR


:: +****************************+
:: | 31 days in month |
:: +****************************+
:SET31
set /A dd=31 + %dd%
goto DAYTEST


:: +****************************+
:: | 30 days in month |
:: +****************************+
:SET30
set /A dd=30 + %dd%
goto DAYTEST


:: +****************************+
:: | check for leap year |
:: +****************************+
:LEAPCHK
set /A tt=%yyyy% %% 4
if not %tt%==0 goto SET28
set /A tt=%yyyy% %% 100
if not %tt%==0 goto SET29
set /A tt=%yyyy% %% 400
if %tt%==0 goto SET29
goto SET28


:: +****************************+
:: | 28 days in month |
:: +****************************+
:SET28
set /A dd=28 + %dd%
goto DAYTEST


:: +****************************+
:: | 29 days in month |
:: +****************************+
:SET29
set /A dd=29 + %dd%
goto DAYTEST



:: +************************************************* ***********+
:: | target olderthan date has been correctly identified. |
:: | finish formatting the date and find files to process. |
:: +************************************************* ***********+
ONE

:: add leading zero if day or month value is less than 10
if /i %dd% LSS 10 set dd=0%dd%
if /i %mm% LSS 10 set mm=0%mm%


:: check for files in directory and process them.
:: "for /r" provides recursive search.
::
IF %RECURSIVE%==TRUE (
for /r %TARGETDIR% %%i in (%FILELIST%) do (
set FileName=%%i
call :PROCESSFILE %%~ti
)
) ELSE (
for %%i in (%TARGETDIR%%FILELIST%) do (
set FileName=%%i
call :PROCESSFILE %%~ti
)
)

goto FINISH



:: +************************************************* ***********+
:: | Parse file date and delete files which are older |
:: | than OLDERTHAN date |
:: +************************************************* ***********+
:PROCESSFILE

:: parse passed date string into month, day and year values
set temp=%1
set fyyyy=20%temp:~6%
set fmm=%temp:~3,2%
set fdd=%temp:~0,2%
if /I %fyyyy% GTR 2069 set fyyyy=19%temp:~6%

:: -|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| ||-
:: + This is where the files are deleted *
:: + Change the ECHO command to DEL %FileName% *
:: + to delete. ECHO is used for test. *
:: -|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| ||-
if /I %yyyy%/%mm%/%dd% GEQ %fyyyy%/%fmm%/%fdd% (
ECHO The file %FileName% will be deleted
)

:: clear variables used
set temp=
set fyyyy=
set fmm=
set fdd=

goto EXIT



:: +************************************************* ***********+
:: | loop to address syntax errors when calling batch |
:: +************************************************* ***********+
:SYNTAX
ECHO.
ECHO USAGE:
ECHO DELOLD /r X Y Z
ECHO.
ECHO /r option provides a recursive file search
ECHO.
ECHO X is the number of days previous to Today.
ECHO Y is the directory to search
ECHO Z is the a filter for files to search. This argument is optional
ECHO and defaults to *.* (all files)
ECHO.
ECHO Examples:
ECHO "DELOLD 5 C:\temp" Deletes files older than 5 days
ECHO in C:\temp
ECHO "DELOLD /r 5 C:\temp" Deletes files older than 5 days
ECHO in C:\temp and any of its
ECHO subfolders
ECHO "DELOLD 5 C:\temp *.txt" Deletes text files older than 5
ECHO days in C:\temp
ECHO.
ECHO.
GOTO FINISH



:: +************************************************* ***********+
:: + loop to address errors in batch logic. |
:: + currently only accessed when month for olderthan |
:: + date is out of the expected range. |
:: +************************************************* ***********+
:ERROR
ECHO.
ECHO !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!
EcHO ! An error has occurred. Stopping batch. !
ECHO !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!
ECHO.
GOTO FINISH



:: +************************************+
:: | clear variables used and exit |
:: +************************************+
:FINISH
set mm=
set yyyy=
set dd=
set thedate=
set ARGTEST=
set RECURSIVE=
set OLDERTHAN=
set TARGETDIR=
set FILELIST=
set FileName=

goto EXIT



:EXIT


:: ----------END-DELOLD.BAT-------------