I am writing a batch file that uses wget.exe to go download a text file everyday. I know exactly what the filename will be everyday, but how do I automatically populate the "wget" line with the filename? The only change is the date; the format is something like: wget hxxp://www.website.com/reports/repYYYYMMDD.txt Any help would be greatly appreciated...thx.

Here are some clues. echo %date% 20/02/2008 Try the above command. Your date may be printed in a different format. echo %date:~3,2% 02 The above command gets a substring, in my case one containing the month. Do a similar thing for the day and year parts, and you can build the YYYYMMDD string that you need.

echo %date% gives me: Wed 02/20/2008 echo %date:~3,2% returns: 0 Any other thoughts?

@echo off setLocal EnableDelayedExpansion for /f "tokens=2-4 delims=/ " %%a in ('echo %date%') do ( set YYYYMMDD=%%c%%a%%b ) echo wget hxxp://www.website.com/reports/rep!YYYYMMDD!.txt ===================================== If at first you don't succeed, you're about average. M2

HOLY cow that somehow insanely worked Mechanix!!! Thank you thank you thank you. One more question....what if I wanted to download today -1 (yesterday)? Is that possible? Thanks again! J.

We go through this 'date math' a few times a month. It's not worth it. A workaround is to get a list of files. But that will only fly if you have access to the server via ftp/rlogin etc. ===================================== If at first you don't succeed, you're about average. M2

Mechanix -- I do not have ftp access... I found a "calendar" of sorts that gets me to yesterday.... http://www.computing.net/programming/wwwboard/forum/9077.html Totally works now....thank you so much for your help. J.