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I have a problem where it prompts me to delete folders that have "." in the folder name. For example foldername.06.27.2010
Is there any way to suppress that? it stalls the script until you answer yes or no.

try with quotes around?

Any secret on file names and folders with spaces and, numbers and periods in them?

Hi,
I tried to running this in my system(WIN-XP operating system), for some reason it is NOT deleting any files.
I didn't had forfiles.exe in my system, I downloaded from the net and placed it in D:\forfiles.exe and tried to run forfiles command from command promt, but no success.
Thanks

Teste and Working. Thanks very much!!!

Steve,

Thank you so much for the info on FORFILES!!

Its exactly what I was looking for and it works great!!

Thanks again.

Mark

The "DEL" command only deletes files not folders. For folders you have to use "RMDIR". :)

mine in the post works, it is just that wordpress screws up the "quotes" so when you copy/paste it , it doesnt work.

if you want to remove directories, try the cmd line "rd"

such as rd /s /q myfolder

I am using the forfiles.exe version:5.2.3790.0 (srv03_rtm.030324-2048) in windowsXP.
I used your(ForFiles - Delete files older than X amount of Days Feb.27, 2007 in Geeky/Programming)above command and found it didn't work in my computer but when I tested the following command in batch file
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@ECHO OFF
ECHO ******www.moshiur.com***********
forfiles /p C:\test22\test2\ /s /m *.* /d -3 /c "cmd /c del echo @FILE"
EXIT

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I found that it was working fine including files in sub directories in my given path but thing is that it couldn't delete any subdirectories. Do you have advice ?

Thanks for the info!