thanks for the reply... I got forfiles, put in both the root c: (where I'm testing) and in the system32 folder. ran this line and get this error: C:\>moveold "c:\test" "c:\old" 10 NOW Hunting Through "c:\test" And Subfolders For Old Files... The syntax of the command is incorrect. I added the echo to the statment and the word wrap thing doesn't appear to be a problem. any ideas? -----Original Message----- From: Sullivan, Glenn [mailto:GSullivan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2004 12:35 To: 'windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx' Subject: [windows2000] Re: copy files by date over CLI BTW, there were two lines that wrapped in that script... they are the two lines that do not start with a Space or a Colon. And the line that starts with "NOW" should have the word "Echo" in front of it. HTH, Glenn Sullivan, MCSE+I MCDBA David Clark Company Inc. -----Original Message----- From: Sullivan, Glenn [mailto:GSullivan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2004 1:31 PM To: 'windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx' Subject: [windows2000] Re: copy files by date over CLI Forfiles from the resource kit... Stuff it into a FOR command at the CLI, and you should be good to go. Here is a script (Modified from ASB's DelOld script on the NTSysAdmin list) that hunts a directory and it's subdirectories for files older than XX days, and moves them. <-------Start-------> @ECHO OFF rem ============================================================== rem === Move Old Files (Win2K/FORFILES Version) rem ============================================================== rem ============================================================== rem === Verify If Syntax Help Is Required/Requested rem === Last Modified On 06 Sep 2001 rem ============================================================== :NeedHelp IF /I "%1"=="" GOTO :HelpMessage IF /I "%2"=="" GOTO :HelpMessage FOR %%H IN (H HELP) DO IF /I "%1"=="/%%H" GOTO :HelpMessage FOR /F %%H IN ('ECHO %* ^| FIND /I "/?"') DO IF NOT ERRORLEVEL 1 GOTO :HelpMessage rem ============================================================== rem === Initialize Environment Variables rem === Last Modified On 05 Sep 2001 rem ============================================================== :Variables SETLOCAL SET @FOLDER=%~1 SET @DESTFolder=%~2 SET @AGE=%3& IF /I "%3"=="" SET @AGE=30 SET @LOGFILE="%~dp0\Logs\MoveOld.LOG" rem ============================================================== rem === Recurse Through Subfolders And Move Old Files rem === Last Modified On 05 Sep 2001 rem ============================================================== :SetFolders IF /I NOT EXIST "%~dp0\Logs" MD "%~dp0\Logs" ECHO. >>%@LOGFILE% ECHO. >>%@LOGFILE% NOW Hunting Through "%@FOLDER%" And Subfolders For Old Files... >>%@LOGFILE% ECHO. >>%@LOGFILE% ECHO. ECHO Hunting Through "%@FOLDER%" And Subfolders For Old Files... ECHO. FOR /F "TOKENS=*" %%D IN ('FORFILES -p"%@FOLDER%" -d-%@AGE% -s -c"CMD /C ECHO @PATH\@FILE"') DO CALL :MoveFiles "%%D" rem ============================================================== rem === Reset Environment Variables and Exit Batch File rem === Last Modified On 27 Jun 2000 rem ============================================================== :ExitBatch ENDLOCAL GOTO :EOF rem ============================================================== rem === SUBROUTINE: Remove Files That Are Over XX Days Old rem === Last Modified On 18 Oct 2000 rem ============================================================== :MoveFiles FOR /F %%G IN ('dir %1 ^| FIND /I ".."') DO IF ERRORLEVEL 0 goto SkipRemove rem %* = Current Filename ECHO -- Moving %*... ECHO -- Moving %*... >>%@LOGFILE% ATTRIB -R -S -H %* MOVE %* %@DESTFolder% >>%@LOGFILE% :SkipRemove GOTO :EOF rem ============================================================== rem === SUBROUTINE: Remove Surrounding Quotes From Variable rem === Last Modified On 01 Jul 2001 rem ============================================================== :NoQuotes rem %1 = Current Filename SET %1=%~2 GOTO :EOF rem ============================================================== rem === SUBROUTINE: Display Syntax Help For "/?" rem === Last Modified On 23 Aug 2001 rem ============================================================== :HelpMessage ECHO. ECHO Syntax Help for MOVEOLD.BAT ECHO. ECHO === MoveOld {initial_dir} {destination_dir} [age_of_files] ECHO. ECHO Example: MoveOld C:\STORAGE c:\OldStuff 10 ECHO MoveOld D:\HOME c:\OldStuff 90 ECHO MoveOld E:\ARCHIVES c:\OldStuff ECHO MoveOld "F:\OLD ARCHIVES" c:\OldStuff ECHO MoveOld "G:\MISCELLANEOUS STUFF" c:\OldStuff 45 ECHO. ECHO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ECHO NOTE: Folder names which contain spaces ECHO should be surrounded by quotes. ECHO Shortnames *can* be surrounded by ECHO quotes if you choose, but it is not ECHO mandatory by any means. ECHO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ECHO. <------------------End Script------------> HTH, Glenn Sullivan, MCSE+I MCDBA David Clark Company Inc. -----Original Message----- From: Brian Anderson [mailto:BAnderson@xxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2004 1:06 PM To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [windows2000] copy files by date over CLI I've got a directory of documents on one of our app servers. They're computer generated documents that have been piling up for a bit. Right now, in this one directory, there is close to 500k documents. I'm wanting to pull some of the files out of there. Problem is that the folder seems to be so big (like 13GB), that explorer just freezes (even if you let it sit for an hour) trying to open up the folder. Over the command line, I can copy files fine though. Does anyone know of a way that I could copy files over the command line using a modified date range as an identifier? The files go back about 3 years and I would want to move out maybe the first year or so. I wasn't aware of any specific switches that did that in either copy or xcopy. Or beyond that, would there be a utility that could do it that anyone is aware? thanks, -brian Brian Anderson Serapis Support Correctional Medical Service Office (314)919-9868 Mobile (314)239-1398 banderson@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.serapisonline.com ******************************************************** This Weeks Sponsor StressedPuppy.com Games Feeling stressed out? 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