File Creation Date - Batch File

[[AK]Nuts]

Okay, I'm stumped and before I turn it over to a corporate programer, I'm hoping you can find the answer for me:

DOS batch file or a script that will scan a directory. If a file (.act) exists and that file is more than one hour old then stop a system service, delete the file in question then restart the service.

I'll us scheduler to handle the reoccurance issues but so far the only thing I've got is an old Win95 program that wont work in XP.

Any takers?

[[AK]Devil_Dog]

Just be careful when running that type of script. If someone does a copy form one folder to another the creation date will change and you could lose more then you bargained for....

[[AK]Choozoo]

If you can, use PERL. Otherwise, turn it over. That would look like a nightmare in DOS. Not to mention DOS/Windows time functions are very limited.

[[AK]Devil_Dog]

Yes, yes, to Choozoo you listen...

[[AK]Nuts]

I poked around more last night and this morning and have decided to farm it out to our programers. Arg! I hate giving up like this.

[[AK]StitchJones]

I agree with Choozoo. Use a simple PERL script that is mainly based with regular expressions to look for that data. Then you can navigate around the files that way. Also for Services, you can use the WIN32::Service module to start and stop the service you need.

On the flip side, your best bet is to use a VBS script that will take the existing file and 'rename' it with a time stamp. This way you can create a safe file archive of old files. This is less dangerous to the system. You could even have those renamed files move into a 'arch' folder and setup a seperate delete function for that.

[[AK]StitchJones]

I poked around more last night and this morning and have decided to farm it out to our programers. Arg! I hate giving up like this.

FR0G PU$$3Y!!!!