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Renaming file to current date.

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Name: Darin Ambrose
Date: May 29, 2002 at 11:45:34 Pacific
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Does anybody have a batch file that file rename a file to a certain date. ex. hold.doc to 20020529.doc



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Response Number 1
Name: Renaissance Man
Date: May 29, 2002 at 15:01:51 Pacific
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Scroll down. There have been several posts in the last week or two about the exact same topic.


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Name: Secret_Doom
Date: May 29, 2002 at 21:30:43 Pacific
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R_Man is right, that's been one of the top FAQs from this forum.

FAQ #02 - Get current date into variable without separators
http://www.batch.hpg.com.br/index.htm#02

Let's say you save the current date to the %DATE% variable. Then, this is what you've got to do:

REN HOLD.DOC %DATE%.DOC

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Response Number 3
Name: JJ
Date: May 30, 2002 at 01:09:08 Pacific
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A small program, DateEdit can change date/time, works in WinXP also.

http://home.worldonline.dk/~ninotech/


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Response Number 4
Name: Secret_Doom
Date: May 30, 2002 at 11:41:59 Pacific
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In NT systems (such as XP), this is very easy to do, can be done in just one line:

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

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