Jeremy,
Yes, unfortunately this is only NT and Win2000 in this syntax. In fact, in
Win2000 there is an even simpler form... %DATE% is a dynamic environment
variable which expands to the current date in the local format, so you could
simply have:
set dateserial=%DATE:~10,4%%DATE:~7,2%%DATE:~4,2%
or even compressing the whole thing into a single line:
ren daily.log %DATE:~10,4%%DATE:~7,2%%DATE:~4,2%.log
use "help set" for more details of the syntax.
On Win95 /98 (I don't know about Millenium) you can still do it using the
FOR statement, but date doesn't accept /T so you have to mess around using
echo. | date > txt file then adding .txt files together, and all in all I
wouldn't start from there! (I don't use any of these 95/98/ME so don't take
this as gospel)
Regards
Simon West
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-----Original Message-----
From: Jeremy Wadsack [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 09 January 2001 16:11
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [analog-help] Renaming a file to include a datestamp
automatically
Simon West wrote:
> I know you have had a lot of answers on this one, but you CAN do it with
> batch files...
>
> @echo off
> for /F "tokens=1,2" %%d in ('date /T') do set day=%%d & set date=%%e
> set yyyy=%DATE:~6,4%
> set mm=%DATE:~3,2%
> set dd=%DATE:~0,2%
> set dateserial=%yyyy%%mm%%dd%
>
> will create the dateserial environment variable as 20010109 today. It is a
> fairly simple matter to adjust this to most formats, but I think that is
> what you wanted, without resorting to Perl.
Thanks Simon. I've never been fully aware of the complete for syntax, so I
missed this possibility. However, I think this only works on NT (and 2000?),
right?
Jeremy Wadsack
Wadsack-Allen Digital Group
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