Delete Remote-Files automatically, which are older then xxx

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thoath
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Delete Remote-Files automatically, which are older then xxx

Hi,
please help me. I looked for a script-possibility to delete remote-files on a server, which are older than xxx-Days. The Numer xxx of days (modification time) I want to configure. Is it possible?
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Thomas

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Thanks Martin,
Too bad that there's no easier way. I was hoping that I can use the "rm" command in WinSCP-use with a time parameter.
Unfortunately, I'm not really able to use javascript. Therefore, I can not use the variant likely. Do you have an example in VBS.
Ciao
Thomas

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I don't have a unix server at hand, but you might be able to do it by setting up a remote command. View - Preferences - Commands - Add

Assuming your remote box is unix/Linux/OSX the following ought to work
find /path/to/your/dir/tree -atime +XXX -exec rm {}\;
Where XXX is the number of days older than which you want to delete the files.

You may need to use the -f argument with rm to avoid problems with it trying to run interactively.

This will DELETE files, test it manually in some safe directory first. find is recursive so it will also include directories below the one you indicate and I think it follows links.

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thoath
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Thanks for Your Help,
I find now an own version:
I wrote a windows-bat with 3 commands:

Step 1: Synchronisize the remote-Folder with a local mirror-Folder

Step 2: Start a VB-Script which evaluate the Fileinformation of Files in the local-Folder --> and write a remove-joblist-File for WinSCP

Step 3: Execute the remove-joblist-File with WinSCP

It works fine, but it is not realy elegant.
Best regards and have a nice Christmas
Thomas

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looks promising

Freitag wrote:

Assuming your remote box is unix/Linux/OSX the following ought to work
find /path/to/your/dir/tree -atime +XXX -exec rm {}\;
I would like to use something like this except I want to remove any directories in the dir older then 7 days. So where you have -atime +XXX -exec rmdir -rf {}\ I need to know the syntax for days instead of time and what is the -XXX reference?

Thanks,

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