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Hi,

Sorry if this has been posted - I didn't get any hits when searching the site.

I want to take a file and rename it with the date and TIMESTAMP appended to the file name. For example,

Test.txt >> Test120106114000.txt

How would I go about doing this?

Thanks.Quote

Hi,

Sorry if this has been posted - I didn't get any hits when searching the site.

I want to take a file and rename it with the date and timestamp appended to the file name. For example,

Test.txt >> Test120106114000.txt

How would I go about doing this?

Thanks.


You could use a simple script, but, in my script, you have to GIVE the date and time yourself

Code: [Select]@echo off
echo.
echo.
set /P choice= What's the date :
set /P choiec2= What's the time :
>> (location)/%choice%%choice2%.txt
but, i dont think that this is something that you are LOOKING for
Thanks, but no. I want it to determine the system date and time within the script (if there's no DOS command with a switch) and use that info to apply it to the filename.Code: [Select]@echo off
for /f "tokens=2-4 delims=/ " %%i in ("%date%") do (
set mm=%%i
set dd=%%j
set yy=%%k
)
set today=%yy%%mm%%dd%

for /f "tokens=1-4 delims=:. " %%i in ("%time%") do (
set hh=%%i
set mm=%%j
set ss=%%k
)
set now=%hh%%mm%%ss%

Once you generate the %today% and %now% tokens, you can use them as you wish:

Test.txt >> Test%today%%now%.txt

8-)

PS. You failed to mention your OS, so this code may or may not work on your machineThanks - this worked just great! I puts a space between the date and timestamp and I'm not sure why, but it doesn't matter.

Thanks again ! Quote
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PS. You failed to mention your OS, so this code may or may not work on your machine

Curious ... what OS does that work in? XP's command prompt?


Also, wanted to mention a program that I remember using, some years ago.
Used it with some sort of scheduler, to set environment variables, so that I could use pkzip to archive some stuff weekly - filenames based on the date of creation of the zip file. Kept them all in one directory.

www.ferg.org/fdate/

Fdate


"Fdate is a utility for doing date formatting and date arithmetic in MS-DOS batch files. It runs under MS-DOS and WINDOWS. Fdate's output can be placed into an environment variable that can be used in a batch file in whatever way is useful to you. Fdate is freeware ("zero-cost shareware")."


Worked great for me. I didn't find it mentioned anywhere with a search - I was surprised.


This is a Windows 2003 Server. I'll go look for that s/w - SOUNDS good - especially the price!


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