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June 8, 2011 09:23
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Windows script to remove old files
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/** | |
* Remove all files and folders that are older than a set number of days. | |
* | |
* @param rootURI The URI of the root folder. All old files and folders in this | |
* folder are removed. | |
* @param days Files older than this number of days are deleted | |
*/ | |
function purgeFiles(rootURI, days) { | |
var fso = new ActiveXObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject"); | |
var rootFolder = fso.GetFolder(rootURI); | |
var subFolders = new Enumerator(rootFolder.SubFolders); | |
// create a date before which files are considered "old" | |
var threshold_date = new Date(); | |
threshold_date.setDate(threshold_date.getDate()-days); | |
// loop over each file | |
subFolders.moveFirst(); | |
for(;!subFolders.atEnd(); subFolders.moveNext()){ | |
var f = subFolders.item(); | |
if(f.DateCreated < threshold_date ){ | |
//WScript.Echo("Deleting "+f.Name+" last accessed on: "+f.DateCreated); | |
f.Delete(true); | |
} | |
} | |
} | |
purgeFiles("C:/path/to/folder", 300); |
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