Batch Files Assistance Needed

Jesse Josserand

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Jan 21, 2003, 3:13:51 PM1/21/03

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I need to store MMDDYYYYHHMMSS in a filename for date/time
stamping in a version history directory operation. I need
to do this by creating a variable in a batch file.

For instance.
%myfile=jfj.txt
%dtstamp=`whatever code generates MMDDYYYYHHMMSS` (what
code will do this?)
%newfilename=%myfile appended with $dtstamp (how?)
move %myfile %newfilename

Dean Wells

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Jan 21, 2003, 3:40:01 PM1/21/03

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[SCRIPT]

for /f "tokens=2-7 delims=/:. " %%a in ("%DATE% %TIME%") do (
set DATETIME=%%a%%b%%c%%d%%e%%f
)
echo %DATETIME%

[/SCRIPT]

HTH

Dean

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Ritchie

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Jan 21, 2003, 4:06:50 PM1/21/03

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"Jesse Josserand" <jjoss...@eprod.com> wrote in message news:029001c2c189$9d448930$d4f82ecf@TK2MSFTNGXA11...
>

Use something like this to get the date/time as it'll work on NT/2K/XP
and is fairly tolerent of the current date/time regional settings:-

========================= start =========================================
echo off&setlocal
call :GetDate yy mm dd
call :GetTime hh nn ss tt
echo/Date and time is: %mm%%dd%%yy%%hh%%nn%%ss%
echo/As for the rest of what you want to do, I'm sure
echo/you'll work it out.
goto :EOF

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:GetDate yy mm dd
setlocal ENABLEEXTENSIONS
set t=2&if "%date%z" LSS "A" set t=1
for /f "skip=1 tokens=2-4 delims=(-)" %%a in ('echo/^|date') do (
for /f "tokens=%t%-4 delims=.-/ " %%d in ('date/t') do (
set %%a=%%d&set %%b=%%e&set %%c=%%f))
endlocal&set %1=%yy%&set %2=%mm%&set %3=%dd%&goto :EOF
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:GetTime hh nn ss tt
setlocal ENABLEEXTENSIONS
for /f "tokens=5-8 delims=:. " %%a in ('echo/^|time') do (
set hh=%%a&set nn=%%b&set ss=%%c&set cs=%%d)
if 1%hh% LSS 20 set hh=0%hh%
endlocal&set %1=%hh%&set %2=%nn%&set %3=%ss%&set %4=%cs%&goto :EOF
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

========================= end =========================================

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Dean Wells

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Jan 21, 2003, 3:56:24 PM1/21/03

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I inadvertently neglected your 2nd question -

[SCRIPT]

set MYFILE=jfi.txt

for /f "tokens=2-7 delims=/:. " %%a in ("%DATE% %TIME%") do (

set NEWFILE=%%a%%b%%c%%d%%e%%f
)
for %%V in ("%MYFILE%") do (
set NEWFILE=%%~nV%NEWFILE%%%~xV
)
echo %NEWFILE%

[/SCRIPT]

Dean

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Jonathan de Boyne Pollard

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Mar 14, 2003, 4:38:06 PM3/14/03

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