Hi, We're making some progress. I'm a bit challenged because I haven't run NT4 for a long time. I don't know if NT4 has 'CMD extensions' similar to 2k/xp. Do this and see if it mentions extensions: cmd /? ===================================== If at first you don't succeed, you're about average. M2

0

Yes it does. Something along the lines of.... The command extensions involve changes and/or aditions to the following commands: Del or ERASE COLOR CD or CHDIR and it goes on. Hope it helps :)

0

Not sure. Try thses: echo %PATH% echo %PATH:~,7% ===================================== If at first you don't succeed, you're about average. M2

0

It says C:\WINN I have no idea where that comes from. Its not even the directory I am playing in.

0

It comes from the built-in variable %PATH%. The important thing is that we now know that your NT4 can 'do' substrings. "Gave me DD/MM/YY HH:SS Filesize filename" Please double check. ===================================== If at first you don't succeed, you're about average. M2

0

Hi M2, Win NT/4.0 Cmd.exe can process the same scripts you code for the Win 2K/XP environments with the only (noticeably) difference it doesn't have the "delayed expansion" feature. So keep that in evidence while structuring your code.

0

Okay. the batch file entirely consists of dir /tc /o-d >List.txt When run, it gives me the following (I put the >list.txt as its the only way of me knowing what it does) 10/01/07 12:41 22 New Text Document.bat There is a fair amount of spacing which I removed to fit in the reply. The 22 is the filesize.

0

Hi IVO, Thanks for that. Does that mean that setlocal works but EnableDelayedExpansion does not? HI CHR, We're getting there. I don't know why the /o-d worked and the /od did not, but no matter. The key is that the /tc [time created] works. I need to hammer this a little. Mine puts out dd/mm/yyyy so it's not much to filter. ============================== C:\temp\-\created>dir /tc|find /v ">"|find "2007" 10-01-2007 19:19 129 A.BAT 10-01-2007 19:29 255 G.BAT 10-01-2007 19:29 247 G2.BAT ================================== Your's does 2 digit year so it takes a bit more doing to clean up a 'plain' DIR. ===================================== If at first you don't succeed, you're about average. M2

0

I notice in my example at the top I could have made a better effort with the time. This is supposed to be in 24hr format. Dont know if it makes a significant difference to the code!

0

Hi M2, just as you said: SetLocal works under Win NT/4.0 but it doesn't recognize the EnableDelayedExpansion operand (as the /V switch for Cmd.exe was a big Win 2000 enhancement). Good luck with your in progress training session...

0

ECHO Good luck with your in progress training session lol.

0

I am almost there. So far I have a batch file which does what I want but will only produce a two digit year. Here is what I have: md DII_Ready for /f "tokens=1,2,3,4,5,6,* delims=:/ " %%A in ('dir /t /c *.* ^| find "/"') do copy "%%G" "DII_Ready\%%C%%B%%A_%%D%%E_U_%%G" So this makes a folder called DII_Ready Copies all files into it renaming them with YYMMDD_HHMM_U_filename and it works a treat. The extra _U_ is a feature I decided to add. Just get to find a way of getting the four digit year (perhaps this is due to a setting on my machine (short date format).

0

Try to add the switch /4 to the dir command, i.e. ('dir /4 /t /c *.* ^|...

0

Thanks IVO but didn't work. In fact it stopped it doing anything (other than make the new folder)

0

Sorry, the /4 switch works in 2K/XP only, the following workaround should solve the problem while a quite cumbersome MD DII_Ready For /f "tokens=1,2,3,4,5,6,* delims=:/ " %%A in ('Dir /t /c *.* ^|Find "/"') Do ( If %%C gtr 80 then ( Copy "%%G" "DII_Ready\19%%C%%B%%A_%%D%%E_U_%%G" ) else ( Copy "%%G" "DII_Ready\20%%C%%B%%A_%%D%%E_U_%%G"))

0

Hi guys, Yeah, that's what I would do. If you have dates 1999 and older you could fix that too. if %YY% GTR 80 set YYYY=19%YY% ===================================== If at first you don't succeed, you're about average. M2

0

Hi M2, I too planned what you posted, but I prefer to avoid the setting of an environment variable due to the lack of delayed expansion in NT/4.0. And about /4, it is another one of that annoying issue affecting MS script dialetcs (i.e. 2K version is unlike XP, unlike NT and so on...).

0

Hi IVO, Yeah, I figured I would avoid the delayed expansion by using a sub. This is not complete and not tailored to his DATE format, but you get the ides. ============================ :: hard lesson: delims=* just gaggles up but delims= " is OK setlocal @echo off for /f "tokens=1-4 delims= " %%A in ('dir /t /c ^| find "2007"') do ( call :sub1 %%A %%B %%D ) goto :eof :sub1 set rawDATE=%1 set rawTIME=%2 set rawFN=%3 ::echo %rawDATE% ::echo %rawTIME% echo %rawFN% set appDATE=%rawDATE:~6,4%%rawDATE:~3,2%%rawDATE:~0,2% echo %appDATE% set appTIME=%rawTIME:~0,2%%rawTIME:~3,2% echo %appTIME% goto :eof ===================================== If at first you don't succeed, you're about average. M2

0