How do I write a batch file to delete folders and files on a time basis?

Question

Exact Duplicates:

• How to write a batch file to delete the files which are 5 days or older from a folder?
• write a batch file to delete 6 days older files

Answer 1

Batch can be surprisingly powerful but I don't think the kind of date manipulation you want will be practical.

You can use FOR to split the date into elements and then use SET /A to do the subtraction, but then you're going to need a huge number of IF and GOTO statements to handle cases like subtracting an hour from half past midnight on the 1st of January.

I think you'd be better off investigating VBS or Powershell.