Windows Batch Scripting - Keep only 2 newest files in directory

Hi,

What I need to do is make a batch script delete all files in a specific directory apart from the newest 2 files.

I've seen lots of stuff about deleting files older than 'x' days but these don't really fit with what I need and I haven't been able to modify one to successfully do what I need.

Anyone got any idea how I can accomplish this?

Regards
John

 

Hi,
you could try this to show the files you want to delete:

Code:

@echo off &setlocal
set folder=C:\test

pushd "%folder%"
for /f "skip=2 tokens=*" %%i in ('dir /a:-d-s /b /o:-d') do echo "%%i"
popd

pause

If you think its OK then replace "echo" with "del" to delete them.