How to create a directory in DOS with its name as Month. It should pick from date, dynamically say if the date is 24-02-2009 it should create a directory by picking the month as "Feb" help me in this regard

You have posted your query in the Dos forum. Which version of Dos are you using? Your Operating System is shown as Windows XP which is not Dos based. Do you mean you want a script for use in XP?

Hi, My OS is Windows XP, format of the date displayed is "Wed 02/25/2009" (without double quotes). I need a script to get the month as "Feb". I cannot change the date display format, etc. it is controled by administrators. pls help me.

Below is one way of getting the alpha month and creating a directory. :: Code begins.... @echo off cls for /f "tokens=1-4 delims=/ " %%A in ("%date%") do ( set mth=%%B ) for /f "tokens=%mth%" %%1 in ( "Jan Feb Mar Apl May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec") do ( set mthalpha=%%1 ) Echo Alpha Month = %mthalpha% md %mthalpha% :: Code ends.... Good luck.

This should work for most versions of DOS from about 3.1 and later. ============================================== @echo off @echo off > d.d >> d.d echo E 0100 B4 2A CD 21 B4 4C CD 21 >> d.d echo N DAY.COM >> d.d echo RCX >> d.d echo 8 >> d.d echo W >> d.d echo E 0100 B4 2A CD 21 88 F0 B4 4C CD 21 >> d.d echo N MONTH.COM >> d.d echo RCX >> d.d echo A >> d.d echo W >> d.d echo E 0100 B4 2A CD 21 89 C8 B4 4C CD 21 >> d.d echo N YEAR.COM >> d.d echo RCX >> d.d echo A >> d.d echo W >> d.d echo E 0100 B4 2A CD 21 88 D0 B4 4C CD 21 >> d.d echo N DAT.COM >> d.d echo RCX >> d.d echo A >> d.d echo W >> d.d echo Q debug < d.d > nul del d.d dat for %%a in (1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ) do if errorlevel %%a set dat=0%%a for %%a in ( 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31) do if errorlevel %%a set dat=%%a echo Date %dat% day if errorlevel 0 set day=Sunday if errorlevel 1 set day=Monday if errorlevel 2 set day=Tuesday if errorlevel 3 set day=Wednesday if errorlevel 4 set day=Thursday if errorlevel 5 set day=Friday if errorlevel 6 set day=Saturday echo Day %day% month for %%a in (1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ) do if errorlevel %%a set month=0%%a for %%a in ( 10 11 12) do if errorlevel %%a set month=%%a if %month%==01 set MMM=Jan if %month%==02 set MMM=Feb if %month%==03 set MMM=Mar if %month%==04 set MMM=Apr if %month%==05 set MMM=May if %month%==06 set MMM=JUn if %month%==07 set MMM=Jul if %month%==08 set MMM=Aug if %month%==09 set MMM=Sep if %month%==10 set MMM=Oct if %month%==11 set MMM=Nov if %month%==12 set MMM=Dec echo MMM %MMM% echo Month %month% year if errorlevel 215 set Year=2007 if errorlevel 216 set Year=2008 if errorlevel 217 set Year=2009 if errorlevel 218 set Year=2010 echo Year %Year% del day.com del month.com del year.com del dat.com md %MMM% ===================================== If at first you don't succeed, you're about average. M2

Thank you M2G. Your contri works well in MS-Dos 7.10 and in XP Cmd.exe.

thanks a lot, it works. It helps me a lot in backup of data. thanks