How to access files within shared folder which are older than 4 days using batch command ?

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Hello,

I want to display file names, in text file, from shared folder which are older than 4 days.
I can not pass username and password of production server to batch command to access shared folder.

What I have tried:

1) FORFILES /P \\Test\abc /D -4 /S /C "cmd /c if @isdir==FALSE echo /F /Q @path"
On running above command, I am getting an error :
ERROR: UNC paths (\\machine\share) are not supported.

2) dir "\\Test\abc" /b /s > fileslist.txt
In above command, there is no provision to pass D -4 i.e. to get files which are older than 4 days.

Posted 5-Apr-19 1:23am

Member 9346617

Updated 5-Apr-19 6:21am

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Solution 1

Use the FileSystemObject - reference FileSystemObject object | Microsoft Docs[^]
You can then get hold of the last modified date and use that e.g.

Set FSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
set oFile = FSO.GetFile(sFile)

wscript.echo "File last modified: " &  objFile.DateLastModified

Edit … found the Credit: File Modified Date (VBScript)[^]

Posted 5-Apr-19 1:55am

CHill60

Updated 5-Apr-19 1:56am

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Richard Deeming · Accepted Answer · 2019-04-05T06:22:00

Solution 2

If you want to stick with a batch file, then I'd suggest using pushd and popd to connect to the UNC path:
pushd | Microsoft Docs[^]
popd | Microsoft Docs[^]

pushd \\Test\abc
forfiles /D -4 /S /C "cmd /c if @isdir==FALSE echo /F /Q @path"
popd

Posted 5-Apr-19 6:22am

Richard Deeming

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Member 9346617 9-Apr-19 1:11am

Thanks Richard. It worked for me.