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Answer» Hi team, How is the file named? like: 03-26-2009.txt I believe it's a file creation date that he wants to check, not a file name, but of which file it isn't clear.for today date, there is no need to ask for user system date format, check the FOLLOWING and you will understand. Code: [Select]+C:\>echo %date% Thu 03/26/2009 +C:\>echo %date:~-10% 03/26/2009 +C:\>set d=>file.txt & for %a in (file.txt) do @set d=%~ta & echo %~ta & call echo %d:~0,10% 03/26/2009 08:50 PM 03/26/2009 the %~ta in for loop output MODIFIED date i believe. so for creation date, using dir command is one of the method.Quote from: Reno on March 26, 2009, 07:53:40 AM the %~ta in for loop output modified date i believe. so for creation date, using dir command is one of the method. It returns file creation date on my system Also, date string will be different in non-US locales. now i set my regional setting to albanian: Code: [Select]+C:\>echo %date% 2009-03-26 +C:\>echo %date:~-10% 2009-03-26 +C:\>set d=>file.txt & for %a in (file.txt) do @set d=%~ta & echo %~ta & call echo %d:~0,10% 2009-03-26 09:08MD 2009-03-26 we only need to check for equality of 10char string here. no math involved, and no yy mm dd parsing. only works for today date though, except bulgarian.Quote from: Reno on March 26, 2009, 08:14:42 AM we only need to check for equality of 10char string here You're right. Quote from: Dias de verano on March 26, 2009, 07:35:33 AM I believe it's a file creation date that he wants to check, not a file name, but of which file it isn't clear. FINFO >I want to add a line into the batch file to test if the date of the file is today. If not then stop processing. I can see the confusion I've created here. Sorry about that. I want to test to see the file creation date for NEWBLUES.dbf is the same as the system date; if it is then continue processing. If it is not then the NEWBLUES.DBF is from an earlier date and we don't want to process this. Does this make more sense? >At the end of the batch, I want to copy specified files to archive. I meant here, to copy the files into a compressed file. Cheers Bernard |
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