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Name: george (by gp)
Date: June 23, 2008 at 19:17:44 Pacific
OS: xp
CPU/Ram: dell
Product: dell
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Hi, I want to a batch script to compare 2 files' timestamp, (in case a process might have died or locked).
please help. Thanks a lot.



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Name: dtech10
Date: June 26, 2008 at 12:36:31 Pacific
Reply:

Hi

Are you running under WinXP or Dos prompt.



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Name: george (by gp)
Date: June 26, 2008 at 15:32:22 Pacific
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I am going to run a dos batch file under XP schedule task, to monitor the apps every N minutes.


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Name: dtech10
Date: June 27, 2008 at 13:11:26 Pacific
Reply:

Hi George

Something on these lines help.


@echo off
setlocal enabledelayedexpansion
set Count=1

rem test files
dir > x1.txt
dir > x2.txt

for /f %%a in ('dir /b x1.txt,x2.txt') do call :Check %%~ta

Rem Remove '/' and ':'
set Stamp1=%Stamp1:/=%
set Stamp2=%Stamp2:/=%
set Stamp1=%Stamp1::=%
set Stamp2=%Stamp2::=%

echo %Stamp1%
echo %Stamp2%

if %Stamp1%==%Stamp2% (echo OK) else (echo Don't Match)

rem del x?.txt
exit /b

:Check %1 %2
set Stamp!Count!=%1%2
set /a Count+=1
exit /b


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