Modifying some code I found.  Basically I am parsing a directory and subdirectory filelist out after a date and writing the INFO to a text file to use as input into 7 zip.  I was going to use forfiles when I found out that one can not exclude directories when using -s.  My problem is echoing out the file date using echo %%~tF.  I get a BLANK line.  or with other variants I get the colon . I am missing something here.  I got stuck on the echo.

Current version of code:

echo off
for /D %%D in ("c:\Docs\*.*") do (
    if /I not "%%D"=="c:\docs\outlook data files" (
::store current directory
        pushd "%%D"
::recurse through directory for file
        for /R %%F in (%%D) do (
 
   echo ok
 echo :%%~tF
         
        )
        popd
    )
)

The version gives:

ok
:
ok
:

Ultimately, I want to add an if to compare the file date to a date I specify and if >= echo file to the file list using something like : ECHO PATH\FILE>> "c:\test\ziplst.txt"Quick SANITY check... you want to find a folder under C:\Docs, called "C:\Docs\outlook data files", (which WILL be present?) and then echo the date and time of every single file in that folder, preceding each date with a colon? Is that right?



PLEASE use code tags.I initially looked under Help and Posting for how to insert code before posting.  I looked for some other general stickies, couldn't find one though. Help had a lot of stuff on POLLS, nothing on posting inline code in Posting.   Do you have a code tag format link?

Search seemed to be dyfunctional.  Perhaps I do not understand how to use the Search.  I did a search on batch and date and one on just date, got nothing returned yet in just going through the forum pages found a couple of threads on batch and date.. you want to find a folder under C:\Docs, called "C:\Docs\outlook data files"

C:\Docs\outlook data files   gets excluded from the search since there is a not in the compare.  %%D has current path & filename.  Started over and now have different problem.  FileDate var is getting set to last file's date in the Echo for all files.


Code: [Select]for /R "C:\test\" %%D in (*.*) do (
set FileDate=%%~tD
ECHO %%D:  CurFDate: %%~tD:    %FileDate:~0,10%  >>I:\tem.txt

)


output:

C:\test\t1.dat:  CurFDate: 10/15/2014 02:26 PM:    11/11/2014 
C:\test\t2.dat:  CurFDate: 10/15/2014 02:34 PM:    11/11/2014 
C:\test\t3.txt:  CurFDate: 11/16/2015 10:42 AM:    11/11/2014 
C:\test\t4.txt:  CurFDate: 12/31/2015 08:53 AM:    11/11/2014 
C:\test\t5.txt:  CurFDate: 05/11/2016 02:20 PM:    11/11/2014 
C:\test\TestL2\t6subd.dat:  CurFDate: 11/11/2014 01:56 PM:    11/11/2014  Because you are not using delayed expansion.