Batch file to delete folders older than 10 days in Windows 7

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I want to create a batch file which should delete all subfolders of a folder which are older than 10 days  using Windows 7   Any help would be appreciated

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Adapted from this answer to a very similar question:

FORFILES /S /D -10 /C "cmd /c IF @isdir == TRUE rd /S /Q @path"

You should run this command from within your d:\study folder. It will delete all subfolders which are older than 10 days.

The /S /Q after the rd makes it delete folders even if they are not empty, without prompting.

I suggest you put the above command into a .bat file, and save it as d:\study\cleanup.bat.

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FORFILES  S  D -10  C  cmd  c IF  isdir    TRUE rd  S  Q  path    I could not get Blorgbeard s suggestion to work  but I was able to get it to work with RMDIR instead of RD      FORFILES  p N  test  S  D -10  C  cmd  c IF  isdir    TRUE RMDIR  S  Q  path    Since RMDIR won t delete folders that aren t empty so I also ended up using this code to delete the files that were over 10 days and then the folders that were over 10 days old      FOR  d   K in   n  test    DO        FOR  d   J in     K    DO        FORFILES  P   J  S  M    D -10  C  cmd  c del  file                     FORFILES  p N  test  S  D -10  C  cmd  c IF  isdir    TRUE RMDIR  S  Q  path    I used this code to purge out the sub folders in the folders within test  example n  test abc 123 would get purged when empty  but n  test abc would not get purged

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If you want using it with parameter  ie  delete all subdirs under the given directory   then put this two lines into a   bat or   cmd file    echo off for  f  delims     d in   dir  1  s  b  ad    sort  r   do rd    d  2 gt nul  amp  amp  echo rmdir   d   and add script-path to your PATH environment variable  In this case you can call your batch file from any location  I suppose UNC path should work  too    Eg    YourBatchFileName c  temp    you may use quotation marks if needed   will remove all empty subdirs under c  temp folder  YourBatchFileName   will remove all empty subdirs under the current directory

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