Batch file to copy files from relative date from today?

[JGKWORK]

Hi,

Not sure if this is the correct forum for this but I've been tying for hours to figure out a way to write a batch file which simply copies files created say "yesterday" or from the last two days (my choosing) - from one folder to another?

Really appreciate any help.

Many thanks.

 

[smah]

What have you tried that hasn't worked? Something as simple as this (untested) would do what you describe

@echo off
set source=c:\somesourcefolder
set dest=d:\somedestinationfolder
SET /P startdate=Enter date in m-d-y format:

xcopy "%source%\*.*" "%destination%" /D:%startdate%

echo copy complete
pause

 

[JGKWORK]

Thanks but what I need is something that does this for a date relative to todays date e.g.

Copy all files from yesterday (so I would change the variable to -1 or two days ago -2) etc, any ideas?

Many thanks.

What I have tried so far is below. Now this works but not when I introduce a file path which has spaces in it (which it has)!:

FORFILES /p C:\temp /s /m *.trn /d -1 /c "CMD /C move /Y @FILE C:\temp\test"

 

[JGKWORK]

I should also have said that there should be no manual uintervention i.e. no inputting of dates as this will be a scheduled batch file. Ta.

 

[webrabbit]

If I were doing this, I would write a COBOL program to do it. I have writen a similar COBOL program in the past to replace a VB program. The Vb program took hours to copy a few thousand files, the COBOL program took less than 0.1 second.

 

[smah]

I don't know if this will work, but how about inserting the hex for the " character (0xDE)?

FORFILES /p [!]"[/!]C:\temp[!]"[/!] /s /m *.trn /d -1 /c "CMD /C move /Y @FILE [!]0xDE[/!]C:\temp\test[!]0xDE[/!]"

 

[JGKWORK]

Bit late with this but thanks all.