Input system date as a variable in a batchfile

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In a batch file, is there a way out to store the date variable as the file name. ie, the file name should be ddmmyyyy. say i generate the directory listing on a daily basis, this file name should be 24092002.xxx. when i generate the file the next day the same should be saved as 25092002.xxx. Help me out please

 

[HEX1000]

Hi

I found this which may help you. Just need to modify it.

Calculating yesterday's date on Win9x (DOS batch).

so this batch will do it:
===== BATCH SCRIPT BEGIN =====
@echo off
for /F "tokens=2,3,4 delims=/- " %%a in ("%DATE%&quot do (
set M=%%a
set D=%%b
set Y=%%c
)

:: Set today's date format
set TODAY=%M%%D%%Y%

set /A D=D-1
if not "%D%"=="0" goto dateend
set /A M=M-1
if not "%M%"=="0" goto keepyear
set /A Y=Y-1
set M=12
:keepyear
for %%a in (2 4 6 9 11) do if "%M%"=="%%a" set D=30
if "%D%"=="0" set D=31

:dateend
if "%D:~1,1%"=="" set D=0%D%
if "%M:~1,1%"=="" set M=0%M%

:: Set yesterday's date format
set YESTERDAY=%M%%D%%Y%

for %%? in (M D Y) do set %%?=

echo YESTERDAT=%YESTERDAY%
echo TODAY=%TODAY%
===== BATCH SCRIPT END =====

Watch out for line wrapping!

That script will get today's and yesterday's date into the variables %TODAY% and %YESTERDAY%. The format is MM/DD/YYYY, but that can be changed (read commented lines).

That script is only for NT systems. In order to do such a thing in Win9x, I would store today's date to be used tomorrow, instead of calculating yesterday's date.

 

[jnicks]

Hi

You could also do

TimeDate | SetTimeDate

Then %date% and %time% are available from the environment.

Whichever you find simpler will work.

The Date returned has / but I know the author and could easily get one done without the slashes. Hey, forgot, source is there too, so you can remove the slashes any time.

http://www.roninsg.com/r2app.htm

 

[SteelBurner]

Thanks HEX1000,
that's exacly what i was looking for!

SteelBurner