The new loop.  I used to always default to using a vbs script to loop through and delete files, now I use forfiles, a one liner, and much easier to look at, just like the pic below!  Who knew looping could be so much fun.

Deleteing backups, log management...tiresome tasks.  Recently learned a new trick from SQL Puma for deleting files using a utility from the windows resource kit.  A program called forfiles.exe.  Much easier to use than deleting with a VBS Script (see my posts on Archive Logs and SQL Logs).  Powershell will eventually make even forfiles obsolete, but it is not on each of our servers and the windows support team is reluctant to put it there :( ForFiles is on every one of our windows 2003 servers so it's good to go.

To delete all backups older than 6 days:

Delete all files in the standard TEMP folders and all their subfolders after 9 days:

forfiles -p"%SYSTEMROOT%\TEMP" -s -c"cmd /c if @isdir==FALSE echo del @file & sleep 8 & del @file" -d-9
forfiles /p "%TEMP%" /s /c "cmd /c if @isdir==FALSE echo del @file & sleep 8 & del @file" /d -9

Delete all *.TMP files in the system root (like C:\WINDOWS) that are older than 9 days:

forfiles /p "%SYSTEMROOT%" /m *.TMP /c "cmd /c if @isdir==FALSE echo del @file & sleep 8 & del @file" /d -9

Delete old IIS log files:

forfiles /p "%SYSTEMROOT%\system32\Logfiles\HttpErr" /c "cmd /c if @isdir==FALSE echo del @file & sleep 8 & del @file" /d -99
forfiles /p "%SYSTEMROOT%\system32\Logfiles\W3Svc1" /c "cmd /c if @isdir==FALSE echo del @file & sleep 8 & del @file" /d -99
forfiles /p "%SYSTEMROOT%\system32\Logfiles\SmtpSvc1" /c "cmd /c if @isdir==FALSE echo del @file & sleep 8 & del @file" /d -99

Dealing with spaces in filenames:

Forfiles -p R:\MyFiles -s -m *.* -d -365 -c "Cmd /C Echo 0x22@Path\@File0x22"