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Dos Copy w/ Date in Filename ??
Name: Michael McKenzie Date: October 24, 2002 at 08:25:26 Pacific OS: XP CPU/Ram: 512 MB Ram
Comment:
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" ??
Name: Michael McKenzie Date: October 24, 2002 at 12:00:23 Pacific
Reply:
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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Name: Burbble Date: October 24, 2002 at 14:38:16 Pacific
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put program in memory
