Can you have a date range in dir???

[r***@gmail.com]

Hi,
I want to do a dir command that takes today's date and finds all the
folders that are older 7 days within the current directory. Is this
possible?

Thanks
Ross

[billious]

Post by r***@gmail.com
Hi,
I want to do a dir command that takes today's date and finds all the
folders that are older 7 days within the current directory. Is this
possible?
Thanks
Ross

Yes.

The solution is OS-dependent. Ask in alt.msdos.batch for DOS/9x/ME or
alt.msdos.batch.nt for NT/2K/XP.

HTH

...Bill

[foxidrive]

Post by r***@gmail.com
Hi,
I want to do a dir command that takes today's date and finds all the
folders that are older 7 days within the current directory. Is this
possible?
Thanks
Ross

This post might help you. Newsgroups: alt.msdos.batch.nt is the right group
for XP posts.


From: Marco Maier Said <***@yahoo.it>
Subject: Re: batch file to del files older than 10 days (or something along
those lines)
Newsgroups: alt.msdos.batch.nt

Post by r***@gmail.com
I have some MSDE databases that I export to the file system on a nightly
basis, which in turn get backed up. These database exports start to take up
a sizeable amount of disk space. I would like to write a batch file that
automatically cleans them up every so often.
The exported database file names are based on the date, and constructed from
using a for statement on date/t. So an example file name would be
20040125DB.BAK.
I started expirementing with using dir | find to delete older files by
searching the "day", but started running into problems with single digit
days; ie "7" versus "07". I can perform a mathematical operiation on "7",
but not "07" without doing a lot of extra work. As an example, one batch I
wrote would delete files dated 1-9 on the 20th, delete files dated 10-20 on
the 28th, and delete files 21-31 on the 10th. A loop would be used to count
up from 1-9, and delete those files. But I ran into the "7" does not equal
"07" problem.
I was hoping someone could point me in the right direction as far as what
type of logic to use for a reliable and efficient script to accomplish this.
TIA

@echo off
findstr "^:" %~sf0 >_.vbs
cscript /b _.vbs
del _.vbs
:n=date()
:Set objFSO=CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
:Set oFol=objFSO.GetFolder("c:\folder")
:Set Fils = oFol.Files
:For Each oFil in Fils
:o=Datediff("d",oFil.DateCreated,n)
:IF o>10 Then
:oFil.Delete
:End If
:Next

[Dr John Stockton]

JRS: In article <***@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>
, dated Fri, 2 Dec 2005 12:11:20 local, seen in news:alt.msdos,

Post by r***@gmail.com
I want to do a dir command that takes today's date and finds all the
folders that are older 7 days within the current directory. Is this
possible?

HUNT * d b#-7 s p q e

will do all older than 7 days before the start of today.

NOWMINUS d7 vXXX

HUNT * d b%XXX% s p q e

will do all older than 7 days from now, ignoring Summer Time
transitions.

NOWMINUS, HUNT via sig line 3 below.

Both give SFNs. Both for any DOS-like OS, though the NOWMINUS line will
need modification for NT+ systems.

[Michael Bednarek]

Post by r***@gmail.com
I want to do a dir command that takes today's date and finds all the
folders that are older 7 days within the current directory. Is this
possible?

Yes.

In 4DOS, it's trivial:

DIR /[d-7,1980-1-1]

4NT's (and 4DOS's) Date Ranges are documented at
<http://jpsoft.com/help/dateranges.htm>. 4DOS is free, 4NT is a
commercial product.

Other CLIs will probably require a more elaborate approach, or the use
of specialised utilities.

[Richard Bonner]

Post by r***@gmail.com
I want to do a dir command that takes today's date and finds all the
folders that are older 7 days within the current directory.
Ross

*** Try XXCOPY, XSET, or 4DOS. All can handle date ranges.


Link to the above may be found in my "DOS Websites" Directory at:

http://www.chebucto.ca/~ak621/DOS/Websites.html



Richard Bonner
http://www.chebucto.ca/~ak621/DOS/