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retrieving DOS file date
Name: hammerdilk Date: February 7, 2005 at 12:00:25 Pacific OS: DOS CPU/Ram: Pentium 4 / 2 GB RAM
Comment:
How do I use simple DOS commands (trying to create a batch script) to get the date from a file in the directory? I have looked, and there does not appear to be any DOS commands that will retrieve this.
Name: dtech10 Date: February 7, 2005 at 14:14:55 Pacific
Reply:
Hi hammer What version DOS are you using and do you want the file date into a environment variable or just displayed on the screen.
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Response Number 2
Name: hammerdilk Date: February 7, 2005 at 14:19:02 Pacific
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dtech10,
Thanks for the response...actually, it is Windows 2000, so DOS version 5.0. I would like to get this into a variable as I need to compare this to the current date so that we can determine if we have received a new version of the file or if our tasks are still processing off of an older version.
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Response Number 3
Name: dtech10 Date: February 7, 2005 at 15:44:45 Pacific
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Hi hammer I not familar with Win2000 ,but this works in WinXP Pro.
@echo off dir program.ext | find /i "program.ext" > dir.txt for /f "tokens=1 delims= " %%a in (dir.txt) do set XDate="%%a
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Response Number 4
Name: dtech10 Date: February 7, 2005 at 15:48:48 Pacific
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Hi XDate="%%a Just delete the "
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Response Number 5
Name: Mechanix2Go Date: February 7, 2005 at 20:12:38 Pacific
Reply:
A quick cruise through:
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shows that resolvong file to date/time is built in.
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