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Check created date on a file before
Name: Gambit001 Date: October 7, 2008 at 01:53:53 Pacific OS: XP CPU/Ram: 3.00 Product: Dell
Comment:
is it possible to check a file date using exists?
i want to do something like this in pseudo
IF todays File was copied to server then delete local file. there will only be one file per day.
so i was going to write a little batch file that is scheduled to run daily at a certain time but unsure how to check if the file is for today/current date
something like this but with a date comparison also
IF EXIST \\enterprise1701\common\DB_backups\LCID\SETRUST\DEV\dllcid.dmp del d:\LCIDBackupDumps\DLLCID\dllcid.dmp
Name: Mechanix2Go Date: October 7, 2008 at 02:56:44 Pacific
Reply:
First off, you're not talking about DOS.
Rather than using a file date check. You may want to compare the two files; which seems more to the point.
=========================================== fc c:\src\myfile s:\dest\myfile > nul if errorlevel 1 goto :eof del c:\src\myfile
===================================== If at first you don't succeed, you're about average.
M2
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Response Number 2
Name: Gambit001 Date: October 7, 2008 at 06:11:21 Pacific
Reply:
if its not DOS then what is it?
file compare isnt really that efficent as file sizes are over 1GB in size. they are database dump files
cheers, Craig
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Response Number 3
Name: itguru Date: October 7, 2008 at 10:17:03 Pacific
Reply:
XP = NT COMMAND PROMPT
This is not MS-DOS it is more akin to it's grandaddy OS/2...............
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Response Number 4
Name: alexanrs Date: October 11, 2008 at 15:19:58 Pacific
Reply:
You could always grab some free command-line C compiler and create a small utility that would compare the file times and return an errorlevel accordingly
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Response Number 5
Name: Gambit001 Date: October 28, 2008 at 10:24:25 Pacific
Reply:
ended up making a small vb6 app which done all i need
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