Dear all does someone explain me why the code ::- echo off setLocal EnableDelayedExpansion for /f "tokens=* delims= " %%a in ('dir /b/a-d *.txt') do ( copy %%a %%~Na_%date:~-4,4%%date:~-7,2%%date:~-10,2%.txt ) ::- is working fine by adding at the end of the filename the string “_aaaammgg” but the code ::- @echo off setLocal EnableDelayedExpansion for /f "tokens=* delims= " %%a in ('dir /b/tc *.txt') do ( copy %%a %%~Na_%date:~-4,4%%date:~-7,2%%date:~-10,2%.txt ) ::- note that the main difference is in (‘dir /b /tc*.txt') because I would like to append the creation date of the file (not the actual one); I know this is not a general (good) code because it can be applied just to certain date and time layouts (mine!) but I still can not figure out why it can not append the creation date of file to the file name; is it a matter of the different paramenters given to the dir command or am I completely off the main track? Thanks again max PS: I’ve been checking in the forum and the subject I posted right now it is certainly not new but I did not find a solution yet…

does someone explain me why the code . . . is working fine . . . but the code . . . [doesn't work] Answer: %Date% is the CURRENT date, and it has no relation to anything happening in the FOR statement. Also, the switch /Tc does indeed display the creation time, but the switch /B suppresses this from showing. %%~Ta would give you the modified time of the file, but not the created file. If you're going to do this in Command Script, you need to use nested FORs.

Hi razor You are perfectly right, yesterday I was at the end of a long, long day and now I realise I was completely missing the point! I’ll post later on about the results of my attempts bye max

and what about this (refs in this forum) for /f "tokens=1,2,3,4,5,6,* skip=5 delims=:/ " %%a in ('dir /t /c *.* ^|find "/"') do ( copy "%%g" "%%c%%b%%a%%d%%e%%g" ) I think it is quite close to the point but somehow it is missing something because it says "could not find the path..." still to explore the hint by razor cheers m

As you know, much will depend on the date layou. In my case, this should work. ::== recreated.bat @echo off setLocal EnableDelayedExpansion for /f "tokens=1,4 delims= " %%a in ('dir /tc *.ivo^|find "."') do ( echo copy %%b x:\mystuff\%%a%%b ) ::============================ output of 'dir /tc *.ivo^|find "."' 05-11-2007 19:01 263 SFN.IVO 13-12-2007 18:32 305 DELSSTR.IVO 13-12-2007 21:00 1,432 LOTTO2.IVO 10-12-2007 23:01 1,942 STRIP3.IVO output of bat copy SFN.IVO x:\mystuff\02-11-2007SFN.IVO copy DELSSTR.IVO x:\mystuff\13-12-2007DELSSTR.IVO copy LOTTO2.IVO x:\mystuff\13-12-2007LOTTO2.IVO copy STRIP3.IVO x:\mystuff\10-12-2007STRIP3.IVO ===================================== If at first you don't succeed, you're about average. M2

thanks m2 as usual you are of great help, now I'm studing the bat carefully; I'm always a bit in trouble with the passing of tokens to vars bye max