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get TIME & DATE into var
Name: Mechanix2Go Date: March 4, 2005 at 11:41:45 Pacific OS: w2k CPU/Ram: PIII 933 / 256
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Here's a challenge for you.
Get TIME & DATE into env vars using only DOS internal commands.
are you in the mood of kidding? Well, I set the date only and, as I am Italian and I do not have an English edition of DOS on hand, let us assume the output of the Date command be
Current date is Mon yyyy-dd-mm Enter the new date:
So assumed your code is
@Echo Off Echo. | Date > X.bat Echo @Set MyDate= %3 %4> Current.bat X
and you are done. Anyone to complete the exercise?
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Response Number 2
Name: jboy Date: March 4, 2005 at 13:27:49 Pacific
Name: Dan Penny Date: March 4, 2005 at 17:59:49 Pacific
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Son of a gun. A fast glance at the address told me it was different so I posted the one I had. Sorry, I ~should~ have gone to the site (your post) to check it. ;>{
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Response Number 6
Name: dtech10 Date: March 5, 2005 at 15:29:58 Pacific
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This causes three Commands not found errors. buts worked in Dos5. the "dir abc123.bat > abc1234.bat" could be changed to "dir abc123.bat | find "ABC123" > abc1234.bat" to stop these errors.
@echo off rem Sets XDATE & XTime environment varables echo @echo off > abc123.bat echo set XDATE=%%3 >> abc123.bat echo set XTIME=%%4 >> abc123.bat dir abc123.bat > abc1234.bat call abc1234.bat del abc123.bat > nul del abc1234.bat > nul
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Response Number 7
Name: jboy Date: March 5, 2005 at 16:18:58 Pacific
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"This causes three Commands not found errors"
??
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Response Number 8
Name: dtech10 Date: March 5, 2005 at 16:34:55 Pacific
Reply:
Hi JBoy I said that it did ,but these could be stopped by the Find commannd above.
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Response Number 9
Name: jboy Date: March 5, 2005 at 17:08:02 Pacific
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That exact error is unfamiliar to me - but the idea behind decent batching is not to generate error messages. At best it's... inelegant.
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Response Number 10
Name: Mechanix2Go Date: March 6, 2005 at 23:30:09 Pacific
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Hi gang,
I knew many of you could do this easily.
Especially IVO.
;)
dtech10, thanks for that. I'm looking it over know.
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