How to delete Tomcat Access Log after n days?

Question

I only would like to keep the Access Logs of the last n days created by Tomcat Access Log Valve. http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/config/valve.html#Access%20Log%20Val

Answer 1

For Windows, based on Erwan's answer in Tomcat localhost_access_log files cleanup, for the given folder and recursing into all subfolders:

forfiles /p "C:\path\to\httplogs\" /s /m *.log /d -10 /c "cmd /c del @PATH"

To test, just use:

forfiles /p "C:\path\to\httplogs\" /s /m *.log /d -10 /c "cmd /c dir /b @PATH"

And when having multiple suffixes in the log folder, like both .txt and .log, see using FORFILES in batch to delete tmp and bak files older than a week:

for %%t in (.txt, .log) do forfiles /p "C:\path\to\httplogs\" /s /m *%%t /d -10 /c "cmd /c del @PATH"