I want to delete a file if the creation date is not current.

[THamblin]

I have updated the configuration file for my software distribution solution.  I want to delete the existing configuration file if the creation date is older than the newly created configuration file.
 
Thanks,
Todd

[THamblin]

This is my current solution.  I've tried to adapt some the ideas I found
in the forum to create a new solution, but no luck so far.

rem /* ================================ */
rem /* WSUS registry entry.             */
rem /* 09/23/08 -tah                    */
rem /* ================================ */


DIR C:\NET\sus_client\wsus-*.reg | FIND  "/2008" > nul
if not errorlevel==1 (goto _WSUS
) ELSE (goto _WSUS_No
        )
)
GOTO _WSUS_END


:_WSUS
ECHO The date on this file does match.
GOTO _WSUS_END


:_WSUS_No
ECHO Doesn't match.
ATTRIB -R C:\NET\sus_client\wsus-*.reg
DEL C:\NET\sus_client\wsus-*.reg


:_WSUS_END


Thanks,
Todd

[gpl]

Im not sure whether you want to keep only the latest configuration, or remove a configuration set if it is superseded.

If you want to have only the most up to date files, then xcopy will do it for you - taken from the online help
/D:m-d-y     Copies files changed on or after the specified date.
             If no date is given, copies only those files whose
             source time is newer than the destination time.

Does this help ?
Graham

[Dias de verano]

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if not errorlevel==1
That should be

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if %errorlevel% NEQ 1

[THamblin]

I'm not sure whether you want to keep only the latest configuration, or remove a configuration set if it is superseded.

If you want to have only the most up to date files, then xcopy will do it for you - taken from the online help
/D:m-d-y     Copies files changed on or after the specified date.
             If no date is given, copies only those files whose
             source time is newer than the destination time.

Does this help ?
Graham

Graham,

Your suggestion would work perfectly if I was using a batch file to replace the current configuration file.

My problem is that I have 22 subnets and a different configuration file for each subnet.  A program runs during the login process and determines the 3rd octet of the PC.  Then a configuration file is created on the PC based on the 3rd octet.  The configuration file points the computer to a specific software distribution server.

My objective is to delete the current configuration file.  That will trigger the application to create a new configuration file.  The new configuration file will have a new creation date.  If the PC has a new configuration file, I don't want to delete it with my login script the next time my user logs into the PC.

Hopefully you have more.  I want to delete the configuration file if it is older than the date I specify in my batch file.

Thank you for your response!!!
 
Todd

[THamblin]

Code: [Select]

if not errorlevel==1
That should be

Code: [Select]

if %errorlevel% NEQ 1

Días de verano,

Gracias por su ayuda.

This is the only way I know to get the date on the file.
***
set todd=(
DIR C:\NET\sus_client\wsus-*.reg)

C:\Documents and Settings\THamblin>DIR C:\NET\sus_client\wsus-*.reg
 Volume in drive C has no label.
 Volume Serial Number is 680C-4B0F

 Directory of C:\NET\sus_client

12/04/2006  10:56 AM             2,010 wsus-cc.reg
               1 File(s)          2,010 bytes
               0 Dir(s)  11,905,589,248 bytes free

C:\Documents and Settings\THamblin>
***

Then I saw this in the forum and thought I could use it if I could set the date of the file as a variable.
***
for /f "tokens=1-5 delims=/ " %%d in ("%date%") do set hope= %%e/%%f/%%g
***

I could get the right line of text with this.
***
DIR C:\NET\sus_client\wsus-*.reg | FIND "/2006"
***

But I have not found a way to pull the date out of that line of text.

Any ideas you can come up with would be appreciated.


Thanks,
Todd

[Sidewinder]

I'll be the first to admit that this is a mess, but it seems to work. You're only checking for equality, which is a simple string compare. There is no real need to fix up the dates into yyyymmdd format.

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@echo off
for /f "tokens=2 delims= " %%i in ("%date%") do (
set dt=%%i
)

for /f "skip=5 tokens=1,7 delims=/ " %%i in ('dir /a-d C:\NET\sus_client\wsus-*.reg') do (
if %dt% NEQ %%i echo del C:\NET\sus_client\%%~nxj 2>nul
)

As written, the script will simply list the files to be deleted. When you are satisfied with the result, remove the word echo from the next to last line.

Good luck.

[Dias de verano]

To get the various dates possibly associated with a file you can use dir with the /T switch and one of these letters:

 C  Creation
 A  Last Access
 W  Last Written

Thus DIR /TC gets creation date / time

so:

Code: [Select]

@echo off
REM assumes there is only ONE .reg file in the folder
for /f %%A ('dir /b /TC C:\NET\sus_client\wsus-*.reg') do set Cdatetime=%%~tA
for /f "tokens=1,2 delims= " %%D in ("%Cdatetime%") do set Cdate=%%D
echo creation date: %cdate%
echo today's  date: %date%
if not "%cdate%"=="%date%" goto nochange

REM code to run if dates are different

:nochange


I am a bit confused because in the first post, I see this

I want to delete the existing configuration file if the creation date is older than the newly created configuration file.

But now I see the requirement has changed to deleting the existing configuration file if the the creation date is just different from the newly created one.

[THamblin]

Thank you Sidewinder and Días de verano.  Your ideas have helped me to get my solution.  You are both awesome!!!

Thanks,
Todd