Hi,

We have windows 98 network. My problem is I have to copy a Microsoff access file name as abc.mdb to another location every day. But I need to keep the old one too in the new location. So, I'm trying to send "date" command as a parameter and trying to add date to the same file abc.mdb as abc.mdb_032303. Can any one give me the code for this please. I want to run this as a bacth job every day on scheduler. Please help me.....

That is covered in my FAQ:

FAQ #02 - Get date into a variable without separators

With the code on that URL, you'll be able to get the system's current date into a variable, for using on a COPY or REN command. I leave the addaptations to you.

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Hi,

I tried with the below script (got from ur web page):

:: Get current date into %date% variable
@echo off
echo @PROMPT SET DATE=$D$_> %TEMP%.\T1.BAT
%COMSPEC% /C %TEMP%.\T1.BAT > %TEMP%.\T2.BAT
call %TEMP%.\T2.BAT
for %%? in (1 2) do del %TEMP%.\T%%?.BAT
echo DATE=%DATE%

Output:

I'm getting error as "Out of Environemt space"
Bad command or file name
DATE=

Question:

It seems Date variable is not passing. I'm using Windows'98 [Version 4.10.1998]

Even I tried the command date/T also. I'm getting an error saying "Invalid date" and asking to enter a new date. So, it seems the commands which works on Windows 2000/NT won't work in windows 98.

HELP NEEDED. PLEASE HELP ME.

If you are operating under Windows 9x/ME, forget Date /T and similar commands: they are specific of the NT kernel based operating systems i.e. Windows NT/2K/XP. The DOS box under NT systems is an emulated DOS window *not* a true DOS prompt.

So stated, undere Windows 9X You must enlarge your environment space. There many ways to accomplish this, here a radical one: insert this line at the end of your config.sys in the root directory

Shell=C:\Windows\Command\Command.com /E:4096 /P

This will set your environment space to 4096 bytes solving your trouble. The path of command.com may differ in your system.

I hope this helps.

Ugandhar, you can make the batch script itself enlarge the environment space:

@echo off
if "%1"=="GoTo" goto %2
%comspec% /e:4096 /c %0 GoTo start
goto eof
:start
echo.EXIT|%COMSPEC%/K PROMPT SET %%1=$D$_|FIND " "> %TEMP%.\T1.BAT
type nul> %TEMP%.\T2.DAT
for %%? in (e10D''3B e110''3B w q) do echo %%?>> %TEMP%.\T2.DAT
DEBUG %TEMP%.\T1.BAT < %TEMP%.\T2.DAT > nul
call %TEMP%.\T1.BAT DATE
echo SET DATE=%%2%%3%%4> %TEMP%.\T1.BAT
call %TEMP%.\T1.BAT %DATE%
for %%? in (T1.BAT T2.DAT) do del %TEMP%.\%%?
echo DATE=%DATE%
:eof

In that script, I've used the subroutine concept. The 2nd line is somekind of subroutine handler. The 3rd line calls the script from itself, but in a child shell with expanded environment space. However, on this second call, the subroutine handler will make the process go straigt to the :

Ugandhar, you can make the batch script itself enlarge the environment space:

@echo off
if "%1"=="GoTo" goto %2
%comspec% /e:4096 /c %0 GoTo start
goto eof
:start
echo.EXIT|%COMSPEC%/K PROMPT SET %%1=$D$_|FIND " "> %TEMP%.\T1.BAT
type nul> %TEMP%.\T2.DAT
for %%? in (e10D''3B e110''3B w q) do echo %%?>> %TEMP%.\T2.DAT
DEBUG %TEMP%.\T1.BAT < %TEMP%.\T2.DAT > nul
call %TEMP%.\T1.BAT DATE
echo SET DATE=%%2%%3%%4> %TEMP%.\T1.BAT
call %TEMP%.\T1.BAT %DATE%
for %%? in (T1.BAT T2.DAT) do del %TEMP%.\%%?
echo DATE=%DATE%
:eof

In that script, I've used the subroutine concept. The 2nd line is somekind of subroutine handler. The 3rd line calls the script from itself, but in a child shell with expanded environment space. However, on this second call, the subroutine handler will make the process go straigt to the :start process. Then, when the process on the child process is over, we return to the 4th line (back to the parental shell), which exits.

You should mantain the first and second lines from the script when modifying it. Oh, and the changes on the environment (variables) made on the child shell don't affect the environment from the parental shell (it means you gotta use the %date% variable right after it is set, on the :start label. it will have no value on the parent shell, after the 3rd line)

BTW, in your case you gotta use the script that gets out the date separators, not that one you posted.

-- Leonardo Pignataro - Secret_Doom --

secret_doom@hotmail.com
www.batch.hpg.com.br

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Hey, that response #4 wasn't supposed to get posted, it was an internal error from the site, I guess.

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www.batch.hpg.com.br

Thank you for the information. It worked. Its really great help. I'm thankful once again.

By the way, I guess this is simple question probably. I'm using 'COPY' command as mentioned below after executing ur script:

COPY c:\folder1\file.txt c:\folder2\file%DATE%.txt /Y

In the folder2 I'm getting 2 files with the name file.txt and file032520003.txt files. Is there any way can I get only one file name as file032520003.txt

Please help me.

Well, that command you mentioned will make a single copy of the source file (c:\folder1\file.txt) on the destination.

If you're getting two files, it's because the file is being copied somewhere else... Try looking at the source, you might've forgotten a line like this somewhere;

copy c:\folder1\file.txt c:\folder2

Anyway, you can always delete the unwanted file...

del c:\folder2\file.txt

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www.batch.hpg.com.br