Windows Batch folder exist and folder not exist - windows

Question

Have a need where we need to delete zip files that exist under a specific folder at 100 days old. All other zip files in the other folders, we can delete that are 30 days old. This would be easy if the files were a specific name, unfortunately we can only do this by folder name.
In the end result we will be using one of these techniques with FORFILES as we don't have to do a lot of logic programming in script.
Searched and did find how to do this and works OK, but the processing of the script is very slow.. Pretty much at this point, everything in the "NOT" somefolder condition is what takes quite a while to complete. Have done this with VBScript and PowerShell, but really want to get back to Batch Scripting for this.
BAT script to search directory for folders that match an input name
and as dbenham admits, again this is very slow. Also, did not like the fact that it does not show all folders in the "not" condition for the ones it does not find
He also states, that if you want to do extensive file/folder searching redirecting to a output file, maybe the best solution
This does work, but does not show the "not found" or the folders it would list..
dir /s /a-d c:\windows\*system32* >nul && (echo found it) || (echo not found)
This works to find all folders with system32 on a drive
dir /b /ad /s "c:\system32"
This works to look for folders that DO HAVE system32 within the results which are pretty quick too
FOR /f "tokens=*" %%G IN ('dir /b /ad /s c:\ ^| findstr /I /C:"system32"') DO echo %%G
We want to show all folders that DO NOT HAVE system32 within and in testing and redirecting to result.txt file, it created a 11.9MB file and will take quite a while to complete especially on a whole drive
FOR /f "tokens=*" %%G IN ('dir /b /ad /s c:\ ^| findstr /I /V /C:"system32"') DO echo %%G
How do I search for the directory of a file given its name using a batch script?
Not quite sure about this one
for /r c:\ %%F in (system32) if exist "%%F" echo %%~dpF
Playing around we get
For /F %%A IN('dir /s /a-d "c:\windows\*system32*") do && (echo found it) || (echo not found)
Are there any other ideas or Suggestions out there?

Answer 1

This will search in c:\files and below, and delete zip files by the following criteria:
In the folder called Special folder it will delete them if they are 100 days or older
otherwise it will delete them if they are 30 days or older.
Any zip file in the folders below the Special folder will be deleted at 30 days and older.
Test it before use.
#echo off
for /r "c:\files" %%a in (*.zip) do (
for %%b in ("%%~dpa\.") do (
if /i "%%~nxb"=="Special folder" (
forfiles /p "%%~dpa." /m "%%~nxa" /d -100 /c "cmd /c del #path"
) else (
forfiles /p "%%~dpa." /m "%%~nxa" /d -30 /c "cmd /c del #path"
)
)
)
pause