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naming folder with date
Name: Ted Palmer Date: March 30, 2004 at 11:35:11 Pacific OS: xp CPU/Ram: p4 1gig
Comment:
I would like to have a .bat file to copy a folder and subfolders into a new folder that is named with the current date.
Name: trutexan Date: April 2, 2004 at 20:42:07 Pacific
Reply:
Here's one I found on the net and use to create a folder on my e: drive with current date - minus the day and / seperators. Then I use xcopy to copy data to that folder. Hope it works for you.
set string=%date% echo %string% SET STRING=%STRING:~4% SET STRING=%STRING:/=% echo %string% md e:\%string% cd e:\%string% xcopy c:\temp\*.* /e e:
The web site that gave me this info was here http://www.robvanderwoude.com/index.html
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