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Batch file to delete files and folders

I am looking for a way to delete files that are contained in a folder with a specific name, and then delete this folder afterwards.

I know there is a forfiles command line that I can use to delete files, I just donโ€™t know how to get the folder name in the path. The folder is named according to the date it was created, and I want to delete the folder that is 7 days old. The folder is formatted as yyyymmdd.

basically i need

forfiles /P "C:\backups\[DATE 7 DAYS AGO IN yyyymmdd format]" /S /M *.BAK /C "cmd /c del @path"

and I think that deleting the folder after it will be

 forfiles /P "C:\backups\[DATE 7 DAYS AGO IN yyyymmdd format]" /S /C "cmd /c IF @isDir == TRUE rd @path"

How to fill out [DATE 7 DAYS AGO ...] for them.

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Ok, so I followed the tips of Elektro Hacker, and I ended up using powershell, which looks like this:

 $currentDate = get-date $backupPath = "C:\backup\" $logFilePath = ("$backupPath" + "ScriptAndQuery\Logs\") $dailyLog = ("$logFilePath" + "daily_delete.txt") $weeklyLog = ("$logFilePath" + "weekly_delete.txt") $monthlyLog = ("$logFilePath" + "monthly_delete.txt") $dailyBackup = ("$backupPath" + "Daily\") $weeklyBackup = ("$backupPath" + "Weekly\") $monthlyBackup = ("$backupPath" + "Monthly\") $addDateToFile = "TRUE" get-childitem $dailyBackup |? { $_.psiscontainer -and $_.lastwritetime -le ($currentDate).adddays(-7) } |% { try { if($addDateToFile -eq "TRUE") { Add-Content "$dailyLog" "$currentDate`r`n" $addDateToFile = "FALSE" } $fullPath = $_.FullName remove-item $fullPath -Recurse -force if (test-path $fullPath) { Add-Content "$dailyLog" "FAILED TO DELETE $fullPath`n" } else { Add-Content "$dailyLog" "SUCCESSFULLY DELETED $fullPath`n" } } catch { Add-Content "$dailyLog" "Exception Occurred: $_.Exception`n" } } if ($addDateToFile -eq "FALSE") { Add-Content "$dailyLog" "`r`n" $addDateToFile = "TRUE" } get-childitem $weeklyBackup |? {$_.psiscontainer -and $_.lastwritetime -le ($currentDate).adddays(-28)} |% { try { if ($addDateToFile -eq "TRUE") { Add-Content "$weeklyLog" "$currentDate`r`n" $addDateToFile = "FALSE" } $fullPath = $_.FullName remove-item $fullPath -Recurse -force if (test-path $fullPath) { Add-Content "$weeklyLog" "FAILED TO DELETE $fullPath`n" } else { Add-Content "$weeklyLog" "SUCCESSFULLY DELETED $fullPath`n" } } catch { Add-Content "$weeklyLog" "Exception Occurred: $_.Exception`n" } } if ($addDateToFile -eq "FALSE") { Add-Content "$weeklyLog" "`r`n" $addDateToFile = "TRUE" } get-childitem $monthlyBackup |? {$_.psiscontainer -and $_.lastwritetime -le ($currentDate).adddays(-365)} |% { try { if($addDateToFile -eq "TRUE") { Add-Content "$monthlyLog" "$currentDate`r`n" $addDateToFile = "FALSE" } $fullPath = $_.FullName remove-item $fullPath -Recurse -force if (test-path $fullPath) { Add-Content "$monthlyLog" "FAILED TO DELETE $fullPath`n" } else { Add-Content "$monthlyLog" "SUCCESSFULLY DELETED $fullPath`n" } } catch { Add-Content "$monthlyLog" "Exception Occurred: $_.Exception`n" } } if ($addDateToFile -eq "FALSE") { Add-Content "$monthlyLog" "`r`n" }

In this, I have 3 different backups that occur (daily, weekly and monthly). So basically I delete all the files from the daily week of the week, weekly, month and month, which are a year ago. I also print to the file the date and folder that were deleted for each, or an error message if the folder still exists or an exception has occurred. This script runs daily and works fine so far.

Thanks DMan

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1st - why are you trying to delete files first and then tolfer? If you delete the folder first, you do the same in less time ...

2nd - I THINK. . You cannot do this in Batch, but not without errors, you need to extract (know) the calendar days, at least for the "X" years, which you need to use for your purposes and the Package does not have the ability to extract this information or be a mathematician , a genius to know how to take the calendar dates of past years.

therefore, you need a realistic scripting language that can access the Microsoft.Time library and data and perform a comparison. (Ruby, Python, Perl, everything you need is less batch)

By the way, there are some ultra advanced batfile aricmetics codes written by RobVanDeerWoud to โ€œplayโ€ with things, for example, with this script you can add โ€œXโ€ days to a date, see if you can change the subtract days:

(CREDITS FOR AUTHOR CODE: ROBVANDERWOUD)

 DATEADD.BAT: @ECHO OFF ECHO. :: Check the Windows version IF NOT "%OS%"=="Windows_NT" GOTO Syntax SETLOCAL :: Initialize variable SET Error=0 :: Check the command line arguments IF "%~1"=="" GOTO Syntax IF NOT "%~3"=="" GOTO Syntax IF "%~2"=="" ( FOR %%A IN (%Date%) DO SET cDate=%%A SET cDays=%~1 ) ELSE ( SET cDate=%~1 SET cDays=%~2 ) :: Read the Date format from the registry CALL :ReadDateFormat :: Check if a valid date was specified (ECHO.%cDate%) | FINDSTR /R /B /C:"[0-9]*\%sDate%[0-9]*\%sDate%[0-9]*" >NUL IF ERRORLEVEL 1 ( ECHO Error: %cDate% is not a valid date ECHO. GOTO Syntax ) :: Check if the second argument is a valid number (ECHO.%cDays%) | FINDSTR /R /B /C:"-*[0-9]*" >NUL IF ERRORLEVEL 1 ( ECHO Error: %cDays% is not an integer ECHO. GOTO Syntax ) :: Parse the date specified CALL :ParseDate %cDate% :: Check for errors IF %Error% NEQ 0 GOTO Syntax :: Convert the parsed Gregorian date to Julian CALL :JDate %GYear% %GMonth% %GDay% :: Display original input ECHO Starting date : %cDate% :: Add or subtract the specified number of days IF "%cDays:~0,1%"=="-" ( SET /A NewJDate = %JDate% - %cDays:~1% ECHO Days subtracted : %cDays:~1% ) ELSE ( SET /A NewJDate = %JDate% + %cDays% ECHO Days added : %cDays% ) :: Convert the new Julian date back to Gregorian again CALL :GDate %NewJDate% :: Reformat the date to local format CALL :ReformatDate %GDate% :: Display the result ECHO Resulting date : %LDate% :: Return the result in a variable named after this batch file ENDLOCAL & SET %~n0=%LDate% GOTO:EOF ::===================================:: :: :: :: - S ubroutines - :: :: :: ::===================================:: :GDate :: Convert Julian date back to "normal" Gregorian date :: Argument : Julian date :: Returns : YYYY MM DD :: :: Algorithm based on Fliegel-Van Flandern :: algorithm from the Astronomical Almanac, :: provided by Doctor Fenton on the Math Forum :: (http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/view/51907.html), :: and converted to batch code by Ron Bakowski. :: SET /AP = %1 + 68569 SET /AQ = 4 * %P% / 146097 SET /AR = %P% - ( 146097 * %Q% +3 ) / 4 SET /AS = 4000 * ( %R% + 1 ) / 1461001 SET /AT = %R% - 1461 * %S% / 4 + 31 SET /AU = 80 * %T% / 2447 SET /AV = %U% / 11 SET /A GYear = 100 * ( %Q% - 49 ) + %S% + %V% SET /A GMonth = %U% + 2 - 12 * %V% SET /A GDay = %T% - 2447 * %U% / 80 :: Clean up the mess FOR %%A IN (PQRSTUV) DO SET %%A= :: Add leading zeroes IF 1%GMonth% LSS 20 SET GMonth=0%GMonth% IF 1%GDay% LSS 20 SET GDay=0%GDay% :: Return value SET GDate=%GYear% %GMonth% %GDay% GOTO:EOF :JDate :: Convert date to Julian :: Arguments : YYYY MM DD :: Returns : Julian date :: :: First strip leading zeroes SET MM=%2 SET DD=%3 IF %MM:~0,1% EQU 0 SET MM=%MM:~1% IF %DD:~0,1% EQU 0 SET DD=%DD:~1% :: :: Algorithm based on Fliegel-Van Flandern :: algorithm from the Astronomical Almanac, :: provided by Doctor Fenton on the Math Forum :: (http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/view/51907.html), :: and converted to batch code by Ron Bakowski. SET /A Month1 = ( %MM% - 14 ) / 12 SET /A Year1 = %1 + 4800 SET /A JDate = 1461 * ( %Year1% + %Month1% ) / 4 + 367 * ( %MM% - 2 -12 * %Month1% ) / 12 - ( 3 * ( ( %Year1% + %Month1% + 100 ) / 100 ) ) / 4 + %DD% - 32075 FOR %%A IN (Month1 Year1) DO SET %%A= GOTO:EOF :ParseDate :: Parse (Gregorian) date depending on registry date format settings :: Argument : Gregorian date in local date format, :: Requires : sDate (local date separator), iDate (local date format number) :: Returns : GYear (4-digit year), GMonth (2-digit month), GDay (2-digit day) :: IF %iDate%==0 FOR /F "TOKENS=1-3 DELIMS=%sDate%" %%A IN ('ECHO.%1') DO ( SET GYear=%%C SET GMonth=%%A SET GDay=%%B ) IF %iDate%==1 FOR /F "TOKENS=1-3 DELIMS=%sDate%" %%A IN ('ECHO.%1') DO ( SET GYear=%%C SET GMonth=%%B SET GDay=%%A ) IF %iDate%==2 FOR /F "TOKENS=1-3 DELIMS=%sDate%" %%A IN ('ECHO.%1') DO ( SET GYear=%%A SET GMonth=%%B SET GDay=%%C ) IF %GDay% GTR 31 SET Error=1 IF %GMonth% GTR 12 SET Error=1 GOTO:EOF :ReadDateFormat :: Read the Date format from the registry. :: Arguments : none :: Returns : sDate (separator), iDate (date format number) :: :: First, export registry settings to a temporary file: START /W REGEDIT /E "%TEMP%.\_TEMP.REG" "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\International" :: Now, read the exported data: FOR /F "tokens=1* delims==" %%A IN ('TYPE "%TEMP%.\_TEMP.REG" ห†| FIND /I "iDate"') DO SET iDate=%%B FOR /F "tokens=1* delims==" %%A IN ('TYPE "%TEMP%.\_TEMP.REG" ห†| FIND /I "sDate"') DO SET sDate=%%B :: Remove the temporary file: DEL "%TEMP%.\_TEMP.REG" :: Remove quotes from the data read: :: SET iDate=%iDate:"=% FOR %%A IN (%iDate%) DO SET iDate=%%~A :: SET sDate=%sDate:"=% FOR %%A IN (%sDate%) DO SET sDate=%%~A GOTO:EOF :ReformatDate :: Reformat the date back to the local format :: Arguments : YYYY MM DD :: Returns : LDate (Gregorian date in local format) :: IF %iDate%==0 SET LDate=%2%sDate%%3%sDate%%1 IF %iDate%==1 SET LDate=%3%sDate%%2%sDate%%1 IF %iDate%==2 SET LDate=%1%sDate%%2%sDate%%3 GOTO:EOF :Syntax ECHO DateAdd.bat, Version 1.10 for Windows NT 4 / 2000 / XP / Server 2003 / Vista ECHO Add (or subtract) the specified number of days to (or from) the specified date ECHO. ECHO Usage: DATEADD [ date ] days ECHO. ECHO Where: "date" is a "normal" Gregorian date in the local computer format ECHO (default value if no date is specified: today date) ECHO "days" is the number of days to add or subtract ECHO. IF "%OS%"=="Windows_NT" FOR %%A IN (%Date%) DO SET Today=%%A IF "%OS%"=="Windows_NT" ECHO Eg DATEADD %Today% 1 will return tomorrow date (as will DATEADD 1) IF "%OS%"=="Windows_NT" ECHO DATEADD %Today% -1 will return yesterday date (as will DATEADD -1) IF "%OS%"=="Windows_NT" ENDLOCAL IF NOT "%OS%"=="Windows_NT" ECHO Eg DATEADD 01/25/2007 1 should return 01/26/2007 IF NOT "%OS%"=="Windows_NT" ECHO DATEADD 01/25/2007 -1 should return 01/24/2007 ECHO. ECHO Julian date conversion based on Fliegel-Van Flandern algorithms from ECHO the Astronomical Almanac, provided by Doctor Fenton on the Math Forum ECHO (http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/view/51907.html), and converted ECHO to batch code by Ron Bakowski. ECHO. ECHO Written by Rob van der Woude ECHO http://www.robvanderwoude.com
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Try using rmdir (at the command prompt, type rmdir /? For reference)

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Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/956532/

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