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Naming files to the current date in Dos

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Name: Mani
Date: April 10, 2002 at 06:31:13 Pacific
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Hi

I have setup up a batch job to collect some information. I need to include a command in the batch file so that the name of the file created is the current date. Hve tride using DATE command but has problems with spaces. Can anyone help?



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Name: Cathy
Date: April 10, 2002 at 15:50:54 Pacific
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Goto the dos directory and type HELP and look for the program you want.


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Name: Secret_Doom
Date: April 10, 2002 at 15:54:00 Pacific
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That's a classic FAQ about batch scripts, discribed on my FAQ:

http://www.secretdoom.hpg.com.br/us/faq.html#getdate2.bat

Go on "Get date into a variable without separators"

All my FAQs are for Win9x.
If you're on NT, try the %date% variable

-- Secret_Doom - Leonardo Pignataro --

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


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Response Number 3
Name: Jennifer
Date: April 11, 2002 at 05:45:47 Pacific
Reply:

Right. You can't use spaces in DOS. Make the format in this way:

04-11-02

That keeps you within the 8.x naming convention.


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Response Number 4
Name: Secret_Doom
Date: April 15, 2002 at 21:51:27 Pacific
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Mani and I changed a couple of emails, and the solutions to get current date into a variable for further use was:

set date2=%date:~4,2%%date:~7,2%%date:~10,4%

Mani is using Windows 2000. This solution will *NOT* work on DOS, only on NT systems (so it won't work on Win9x).

-- Secret_Doom - Leonardo Pigntaro --

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


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