I need to obtain the modifed date of a FILE
as a parameter in a batch file.

I would USE this later to append to the filename when I move it.This would thus give it a unique file name.

could someone help me out!


eg :file: bo_trigger_0030.txt modified date : 07/15/2005 15:34:55

I would like to obtain this 20050715_153455_bo_trigger_0030.txt

This is messy and a windows script would've been a better choice but this may give you some ideas:

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for /f "skip=5 tokens=1-8 delims=/: " %%a in ('dir /tc bo_trigger_0030.txt') do (
SET mon=%%a
set day=%%b
set yyyy=%%c
set hh=%%d
set min=%%e
set filename=%%h
goto label
)
:label
echo %mon% %day% %yyyy% %hh% %min% %filename%

Once you have the variables you can do anything you need to.

Note: The code on the dir can be:
/tc - date created
/ta - date accessed
/tw - date written

Hope this helps.

Thanks a lot for the lead..
I modified the echo COMMAND as below to remove the spaces in the output.

echo %mon%%day:~0,2%%yyyy:~0,4%%hh:~0,2%%min:~0,3%%filename% (must be CAKEWALK for you but for others like me )

the output is: 071520050300pbo_trigger_0030.txt

Regards,
Aamir