Delold is a Freepascal program which deletes all but the X oldest file.

In heavy use here for Fido ZC1 stuff... enjoy.

Should be able to recompile for non-Windows and yes I'm sure theres plenty of 
room for improvement... This was written in one sitting after a few beers.

program delold;
uses dos;

var dirinfo : SearchRec;
count,newest : longint;

procedure Eraseit;
var f : file;
begin
 writeln('Erasing '+dirinfo.name);assign(f,dirinfo.name);erase(f);
end;

begin
  count:=0;
  writeln('Delold 1.0/Win32 Copyright (c) by Nick J. Andre, Ltd.';
  writeln;
  if paramstr(1)>'' then
   begin
    findfirst(paramstr(1),archive,dirinfo);
    if DOSerror=0 then begin count:=count+1;newest:=dirinfo.Time;end;
    while (DOSerror=0) do
     begin
      findnext(dirinfo);
      count:=count+1;
      if dirinfo.Time>newest then newest:=dirinfo.Time;
     end;
    findclose(dirinfo);
    if count>1 then
     begin
      findfirst(paramstr(1),archive,dirinfo);
      repeat
       if (DOSerror=0) and (dirinfo.Time<newest) then eraseit;
       findnext(dirinfo);
      until (DOSerror<>0);
      findclose(dirinfo);
     end;
   end
   else
   begin
    writeln('Usage: DELOLD [filemask]';writeln;
    writeln('DELOLD delete the oldest occurances of the mask specified.';
   end;
end.

Nick

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