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Dos Copy w/ Date in Filename ??

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Name: Michael McKenzie
Date: October 24, 2002 at 08:25:26 Pacific
Subject: Dos Copy w/ Date in Filename ??
OS: XP
CPU/Ram: 512 MB Ram

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I am looking for a simple dos/bat programming script that will copy all (*.*) the files and back them up to another directory WHILE adding the DATE in the file name.
So if c:\jobs has files "outstanding.txt" and "reports.txt" how would I copy those over to c:\backup with new file names "outstanding_10-24-2002.txt" and "reprots_10-24-2002.txt" ??
ADV(thanks)ANCE ~! :)
- Michael

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Response Number 1

Name: Burbble
Date: October 24, 2002 at 10:19:11 Pacific

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Try this site:
http://www.computerhope.com/batch.htm
-Burbble

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Response Number 2

Name: Michael McKenzie
Date: October 24, 2002 at 12:00:23 Pacific

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The link is definitely a good resource, but doesn't answer my question. I am trying to copy files from one location to another AND renaming the file to include the DATE... so it would be filenameDATE.doc but in grabbind a %date% value in DOS it uses the "/" which is not a proper filename character... Is there anyway to put the date in another format? or write it to a file and then remove the /'s and THEN make it a filename ?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
- Michael

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Response Number 3

Name: Burbble
Date: October 24, 2002 at 14:38:16 Pacific

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Ah, here's the link I was looking for!
http://www.batch.hpg.ig.com.br/index.htm
Specifically number 2 or number 5.
-Burbble

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