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thatthing
thatthing

Reputation: 676

Batch file to delete files older than N days and save the result as a text file

I am able to create a bacth file to delete files older than n days but i am having problem with saving the deletion results. What i want is listing the deletion result in a text file after the process.

I have tried this code below. It works and delete all files. It also creates result.txt but the txt file is empty. I am seeing that files are being deleted. Any idea why they are not being saved in the text file? 

forfiles -p "C:\Log\" -s -m *.* /D -1 /C "cmd /c del @path" >> "c:\result.txt"

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1111

Answers (1)

foxidrive
foxidrive

Reputation: 41234

This will provide a log of files that have been used with the del command, but not a confirmed result.
If a file is read only for example then it will still exist.

 forfiles -p "C:\Log\" -s -m *.* /D -1 /C "cmd /c del @path & echo @path >>c:\result.txt"

Upvotes: 2

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