How to delete Folders and Files older than 10 day ?

If I use this below command, I am able to delete only the files and files in sub-folders older than 10 day,
forfiles /p "D:\Testing\Sample" /s /d -10 /c "cmd /c del /s /q @file"
Please help...
Thanks

Hello Raman459,
please see this blog entry:
http://elderec.org/2012/02/scripting-delete-files-and-folders-older-than-x-days/
Your command is ok for files, for folders you need to do another command:
forfiles -p "D:\Testing\Sample" -d -10 -c "cmd /c IF @isdir == TRUE rd /S /Q @path"
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