help with date command in script

[lblauen]

I'm trying to automate a backup so I wrote a batch file for test. This is for windowsxp.
I will post it here.

set d=%DATE%

copy list.txt %d%.txt

This fails because the date command has / in it and copy dosen't like the /

copy list.txt fri 09/10/2004.txt Fails
I even tryied copy list.txt "fri 09/10/2004".txt still fails but
copy list.txt fri 09102004.txt works fine.

How can I get the date to be 09102004??? Any ideas????

 

[bcastner]

for /f "tokens=2-4 delims=/ " %%a in ('DATE /T') do set Date=%%a%%b%%c
copy list.txt %date%.*