need help with a automated program

[themeaner]

I do not know the first thing about programming I am a network guy. I have been asked to find a way to automate a process using a script or a bat file. I have a file that needs to be moved from one server to another server. The file in question is named in year-month-day. At midnoght every night a new access database is created and locked. What I need is the day before to automatically move from one werver to the other. Can anyone help me or point me in a direction.

 

[mingis]

Can you see one server from another through Windows network file system? If yes, then simply .bat file with single copy command and Task Sheduller.

 

[themeaner]

Well that is the easy way to do it but the file name changes everyday. What I am looking for is help with the bat file

 

[mingis]

You can write a little program in C, if you have a compiler.
Or perhaps

echo %date% > file.tmp

and some perl/gawk/mawk string processing after that.

 

[VincentP]

Some advanced scripting language like Perl is the way to go to write such scripts. Easier to maintain can compiled programs. And Perl has plenty of built-in time and date fuctions to figure out today's date.

Good luck!

Vincent