Deletes files and folders using batch script

[Vincent88]

Hi Guys, Not sure if I can post any batch file related question in this forum. If this is not appropriate, please let me know. Thanks in advance.
In any case, here is my quest looking for resolution if possible. I use this code to delete files and folders but I want to know how many files and folders being deleted. A volunteer suggests a powershell script to count the total files before deletion but my concern is there may be some files denying deletion which make the count result not accurate.

REM Remove All Files older than 180 days
forfiles /p "%windir%\ABC\Log" /s /m *.* /d -180 /c "cmd /c del /f /q @path"

REM Remove Folders with specified folder name
For /D %%F ("%windir%\ABC\Log\*-*-*") do rd /s /q "%%F"

Here is the PS code suggested from voluteer :

set-location d:\testing -ErrorAction stop               # Change directory
$files = get-childitem -File                            # Get all the files in this directory

$count = ($files|measure).count                         # ($files|measure).count gives how
                                                        # many files are in this collection.
write-host "There are $($count) files to be deleted."   # Write that to the screen.
$files | remove-item                                    #remove the files

 

[JonXL]

Is this a network location or at least somewhere you don't have to worry about folks messing around while your scripts run?

If so, then, assuming you're scripts both work, I suppose the easiest way to adapt them to your particular case would be to run the pshell count, then delete, then count again. The difference of the first and second counts should be the number of files removed(?).

 

[Vincent88]

HI JonXL, You're right. I worried too much. The script works anyway.