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.