Re: script to delete files based on date in file name
Re: script to delete files based on date in file name
- Subject: Re: script to delete files based on date in file name
- From: Jay Young <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 19:30:34 -0500
Hi Heather,
Can you give us some examples of the file names? Are they something
like:
Art2-12-02
Scans3-14-02
or are they different? Can you show us each way they might be written?
And do you always look in the same folders when searching for these
files?
Thanks!
Jay
On Wednesday, July 17, 2002, at 12:55 AM, email@hidden wrote:
I am not getting very far on writing a script that looks at all the
files in series of
folders and each file name contains a
date in it of either 6 or 4 digits. I have a script that looks at the
date to place the
files on a Quark page and was hoping
it would be as easy to find one to look at it and then delete those
files after they are a
certain age.
Generally, how can I reference the file name containing the date,
coerce it to a date and
then delete files based on teh
age, say anything older than 2 weeks old gets deleted.
I have searched for various ways, but they only deal with one folder or
one file based on
modification date and that
doesn't always work correctly.
Thanks for any tips you all might be all to provide.
Heather
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