Dos batch command delete old files

Follow him on Telegram , Twitter , and YouTube. View all posts by Sergey Tkachenko. The solution using forfiles. Thus it is not really suitable for use in task scheduler. But it is not able to delete the file of subfolders.

Can you please give command to delete the files for subfolders as well. Your email address will not be published. Skip to content Advertisement. Contents hide. Support us Winaero greatly relies on your support. Excellent, Very nice work, Great help. Can you also share the command to do the same list or delete folders older then X days.

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How to delete files older than 7 days using a BAT file 1 Post by abhishekkumarrai3 » Tue Oct 04, am Hi All, i have to delete files older than 7 days using a BAT file, i have used below command but this command is deleting all files, but i want it should delete files older than 7 days. Please remember to be considerate of other members. All submitted content is subject to our Terms Of Use. This will run on a schedule and will not require human interaction to input any data.

My problem is, I am not good at writing batch files. I can do the basic type stuff, but finding dates and doing date comparison is beyond me. This batch file will need to check the current date and then compare this date with the file date. If a file is found to be greater than, say, 3 months old then delete that file, then go to the next file and repeat the process until the end of file is reached. Is anyone out there good with writing DOS batch files and can give me some help on this?

If you can also recommend a good free online site where I can go to understand the syntax of finding the file date and how to compare dates? I have found several tutorials but they do not touch on dates. Share Flag. All Answers. Collapse -.