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delete_old_files.s

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Robo-FTP is often used to perform clean-up duties on remote or local folders. This sample script scans a local directory and deletes all files older than 30 days. This technique could be used for log rotation, for example.

  1  WORKINGDIR "c:\folder\to\clean"
  2  SET temp = %datetime
  3  DATETIMESUB temp 30 /day 
  4  SET thirty_days_ago = temp
  5  :loop
  6  GETNEXTFILE "*" /oldest 
  7  IFERROR RETURN $ERROR_SUCCESS
  8  IFDATETIME> %nextfiledatetime thirty_days_ago RETURN $ERROR_SUCCESS
  9  ;; File is more than 30 days old, so delete it
 10  DELETE %nextfile
 11  ;; It's a good idea to make sure the delete doesn't fail due
 12  ;; to a permissions issue (want to avoid getting stuck in
 13  ;; an infinite loop).
 14  IFERROR RETURN
 15  GOTO loop

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