Yesterday in wscript 1

[kwj1027]

Greetings,

I am attempting to determine yesterday's date with the code below. %YDAY% is coming back as 6, today is the 8th so I am expecting 7. I am going buggy trying to figure this out. Open to easier methods as well if there are any.

@echo off
echo WScript.Echo Day(Datepart("d",Now-1))>tmp.vbs
for /f "delims=" %%a in ('cscript /nologo tmp.vbs') do set YDAY=%%a
del /q tmp.vbs
echo Yesterday was %YDAY%

Thank you in advance for your assistance.

KWJ1027

 

[PWise]

try

@echo off 
echo WScript.Echo Datepart("d",Now()-1)>tmp.vbs 
for /f "delims=" %%a in ('cscript /nologo tmp.vbs') do set YDAY=%%a 
del /q tmp.vbs
echo Yesterday was %YDAY%

 

[PHV]

Replace this:
echo WScript.Echo Day(Datepart("d",Now-1))>tmp.vbs
with this:
echo WScript.Echo Day(Date-1)>tmp.vbs

Hope This Helps, PH.
FAQ219-2884
FAQ181-2886

 

[kwj1027]

Excellent PHV! Works like a charm now appreciate your assistance and time!


KWJ1027

 

[geranimo666]

Hello PV-

I just happened to be surfing this forum and needed the exact same script but it didn't work for me.. does it need to be run via cscript? at the cmd prompt?

Thanks for any info
geranimo

 

[dm4ever]

You would run echo WScript.Echo Day(Date-1)>tmp.vbs from the command prompt.

Perhaps specify the path so you know for sure where it is
echo WScript.Echo Day(Date-1)>C:\temp\tmp.vbs

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