RE:Deleting Files in NT

From: Scott Crabtree <scott_at_psscorp.com>
Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 15:12:30 -0700
Message-ID: <F001.0030C93D.20010523143054@fatcity.com>

Raj,

If you have the resource kit installed you can use forfiles.

forfiles -pp:\zipfiles\hot\ -s -m*.* -d-20052001 -c"CMD /C DEL /Q @FILE";

Forfiles is helpful for ton's of DB Maintenance, you can pipe the results to any dos command you want.

We use a statement like the one below in our spool_Hot_Backup script

to prune the backup directories before we put all the tablespaces in hot backup mode and ocopy them, We then compress them in a staging directory using pacomp and move them to a drive so that last nights datafiles are around for a speedy recovery (If Necessary).

/* Clean Out ZIP Files older than two days: Uses Forfiles Resource Kit*/

      select to_char(sysdate-2,'ddmmyyyy') into datestr from dual;
     dbms_output.put_line('host forfiles -p'||backupdir||' -s -m*.*


-d-'||datestr||

        ' -c'||chr(34)||'CMD /C DEL /Q @FILE'||chr(34)||';');

HTH, (hazardous terminal halitosis)

Scott Crabtree

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DBAs

How do I delete files from NT which are older than a week. I need this to organise my backup dump files.

Cheers

Raj
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