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Appending a Date to filename
Name: Steel Date: April 3, 2003 at 09:28:32 Pacific OS: NT 4.0 CPU/Ram: Pentium/?
Comment:
Hi,
What I am doing is creating a batch file that will take a backup of a configuration file on my NT 4.0 Web server. What I would like to do is copy it from one subdirectory to another on the same server, which I have complete, but my problem is that I want to append the date to the end of the file name in the format of "filename.txt.yymmdd". Is there a way to do this? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Name: Secret_Doom Date: April 3, 2003 at 09:52:14 Pacific
Reply:
You can make the process automatic with a batch script (.bat file). Use this code to get current system's date into the variable %DATE% with the format YYMMDD:
@echo off for /F "tokens=2-4 delims=/- " %%A in ('date/T') do set DATE=%%C%%A%%B set DATE=%DATE:~2%
Then after that, just use the variable as you will.
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