Remote delete synthax

[uch]

Does anybody know the synthax for a script to remotely delete files on a network share based on the age/date attribute of the files ?

[Khannie]

You'll need to clarify a bit. Are you accessing the server through ssh? (e.g. putty) and do you know what kind of OS it's running? Usually a network server will be running linux or solaris, that kind of thing. In which case you can use the "find" command to remove files based on their age.

[uch]

It's just a network share on a NAS, it's shared as a UNC path, the files are SQL backupsthat are shipped to the share, I can setup a maintenence plan to delete them off the local Server(Windows 2003) but SQL Wont delete remote files for me, so I wanted to setup a batch file that could be called by a scheduled task to delete files older than 8 weeks, as I don't want the NAS share to fill up.

[Khannie]

Ah, gotchta. So you have the share mounted as a drive on your windows machine and you want to write a .bat file to find files older than 8 weeks and remove them.

This looks like it should do the trick for you. I'm not really a .bat man myself so there might be an easier way.

This is the key part:

Get-ChildItem C:\Test | Select-Object Name, @{Name="Age";Expression={ (((Get-Date) - $_.CreationTime).Days) }} |
Sort-Object Age

There's probably a way of altering that expression for Select-Object to get ones with a date that's > 56 days or whatever.