I need to automate an ftp file trasfer. Upon download of the file i need to add the date as a suffix to the filename i.e. text.txt becomes text051007.txt. i have the automate part figured out the problem is i dont know how to pass the name to the filename i think it involves something about passing that DATE futction to a variable at the command prompt in DOS but im pretty new to batch scripting and so im learning on the fly. If anyone could assist me in this matter it would be greatly appreciated. Dominic Adair-Jones IT Specialist FDIC Federal Credit Union www.fdicfcu.org

Where, exactly, are you stuck? Is the file name and date combined? Do you have the date formatted and ready to go? Do you need help with that? Would something like this work? 1. Copy the last block of text. 2. Paste it in notepad. 4. Save it as "whatever.cmd" (NOT whatever.cmd.txt) 5. Run whatever.cmd "NameOfFileToBeChanged" FOR /f "tokens=1-3 delims=/" %%a IN ('FOR /f "tokens=2" %%A IN ^("%DATE%"^) DO @ECHO %%A') DO REN "%~1" "%~n1%%c%%a%%b%~x1"

Razor 23 im going to try that code. I'm stuck at changing the name im just not sure how i would add the date as a suffix to the filename. and because everyday the date changes i wasnt sure how i would go about assigning the current date to a filename. Dominic Adair-Jones IT Specialist FDIC Federal Credit Union www.fdicfcu.org

The perennial problem is getting the date without second-guessing the layout/language/region etc. This BAT will set date vars via BIOS. ::== YMD8.bat @echo off > d.d >> d.d echo E 0100 B4 2A CD 21 B4 4C CD 21 >> d.d echo N DAY.COM >> d.d echo RCX >> d.d echo 8 >> d.d echo W >> d.d echo E 0100 B4 2A CD 21 88 F0 B4 4C CD 21 >> d.d echo N MONTH.COM >> d.d echo RCX >> d.d echo A >> d.d echo W >> d.d echo E 0100 B4 2A CD 21 89 C8 B4 4C CD 21 >> d.d echo N YEAR.COM >> d.d echo RCX >> d.d echo A >> d.d echo W >> d.d echo E 0100 B4 2A CD 21 88 D0 B4 4C CD 21 >> d.d echo N DAT.COM >> d.d echo RCX >> d.d echo A >> d.d echo W >> d.d echo Q debug < d.d > nul del d.d dat for %%a in (1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ) do if errorlevel %%a set dat=0%%a for %%a in ( 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31) do if errorlevel %%a set dat=%%a echo Date %dat% day if errorlevel 0 set day=Sunday if errorlevel 1 set day=Monday if errorlevel 2 set day=Tuesday if errorlevel 3 set day=Wednesday if errorlevel 4 set day=Thursday if errorlevel 5 set day=Friday if errorlevel 6 set day=Saturday echo Day %day% month for %%a in (1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ) do if errorlevel %%a set month=0%%a for %%a in ( 10 11 12) do if errorlevel %%a set month=%%a echo Month %month% year if errorlevel 215 set Year=2007 if errorlevel 216 set Year=2008 if errorlevel 217 set Year=2009 if errorlevel 218 set Year=2010 echo Year %Year% del day.com del month.com del year.com del dat.com ::== DONE ===================================== If at first you don't succeed, you're about average. M2

Mechanix so that script will pull the date from the bios correct? so after its run how would i go about adding the name to the filename. ie what.txt to what051107.txt the filename of the files never change which is why i need to add the date to the name once it is downloaded in order to maintain some order once they are archived. Dominic Adair-Jones IT Specialist FDIC Federal Credit Union www.fdicfcu.org

If you mean the file NAME doesn't change, use this: ren myfile.ext myfile%year%%month%%dat%.ext ===================================== If at first you don't succeed, you're about average. M2

Mechanix that last script was no good it doesn't add anything to the filename. Dominic Adair-Jones IT Specialist FDIC Federal Credit Union www.fdicfcu.org