[AccessD] OT: DOS COMMAND

Seth Galitzer sgsax at ksu.edu
Tue Mar 18 13:31:00 CST 2003


Rich,

I don't think you can do this with a single command.  However, a quick
google search came up with this forum posting:

http://www.experts-exchange.com/Operating_Systems/MSDOS/Q_20483017.html

You should be able to put together a .bat file from listings here to do
what you want.

Seth

On Tue, 2003-03-18 at 13:13, Lavsa, Rich wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I know this has nothing to do with Access however I am trying to spark my
> brain back to the early 90's.  I am trying to write a DEL statement that
> will go and delete files in a certain directory that are older then 5 days.
> 
> I can't remember if there were switches and/or [attributes] that you could
> use in a single command line or if you had to write a Batch file to do this.
> 
> 
> Again I apologize for this OT, but I'm positive some of you know this
> stuff!!
> 
> Rich

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Seth Galitzer			sgsax at ksu.edu
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Dept. of Plant Pathology
Kansas State University




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