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Valarmathy Babu
Valarmathy Babu

Reputation: 59

Delete files older than 6 months with batch file

I have to delete tmp files that are older than 6 months. I have this command runing in the batch file which delete files older than 180 days. 

forfiles /p "C:\Backup" /s /m *.tmp /c "cmd /c Del @path" /d -180

but I want to pass number of month instead of number of days. any idea would be greatly helpful. Thanks in advance

Upvotes: 5

Views: 5335

Answers (2)

snoop
snoop

Reputation: 171

You could also use powershell commands if you really want to provide day, month, year any of these as an argument.

Example:

Get-ChildItem –Path  “C:\Backups” –Recurse | Where-Object CreationTime –lt (Get-Date).AddMonths(-6) | Remove-Item

Upvotes: 2

smali
smali

Reputation: 4805

AFAIK for forfiles you cant pass months as an argument either you have to pass the Date or No of Days..

see this document for more info https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc753551.aspx

but instead you can read the value as months and convert it to days and pass it forfiles manually..

How are you passing days to forfile in your batchfile now?

Upvotes: 1

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