Add date stamp to filename using DOS
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Name: Susan
Date: January 10, 2002 at 07:03:57 Pacific
Subject: Add date stamp to filename using DOS |
Comment: I'm using DOS on Windows NT. I want to use a DOS program to add a datestamp to the name of a file (i.e. myfile.txt becomes myfile20020110.txt). I saw one help note on a webpage telling me to use a freeware that gives me a command 'date_var' to capture datetime into into variables, but can't find the freeware, nor can I find another way to do this. Any thoughts? Thanks!
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Response Number 1
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Name: bernie
Date: January 10, 2002 at 08:20:17 Pacific
Subject: Add date stamp to filename using DOS |
Reply: (edit)The old Dos version of Norton Utilities had a program called FD.EXE which could do exactly what you want. I don't think it's shipped with the latest versions of Norton though, as they now seem to cater for Windows stuff only. FD.EXE may be downloadable from somewhere.....
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Name: patrick
Date: January 10, 2002 at 21:56:35 Pacific
Subject: Add date stamp to filename using DOS |
Reply: (edit)Doesn't DOS only allow 8 characters for a filename? a file named 123456789.txt is listed in DOS as 123456~1.txt But a program doing what you want would be easy to write for Windows - is there some reason it has to be done in DOS?
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Name: DJ
Date: March 27, 2002 at 09:05:34 Pacific
Subject: Add date stamp to filename using DOS |
Reply: (edit)I need to do the exact same thing. Any help????? Please email at sportsfan@thenflforum.com
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