Dates in filenames

Posted by Geoff Jacobs on Nov 21, 2006 in uncategorized | 0 comments

I came across this handy little batch file that will let you save a file as today’s date:

@echo off
for /f "tokens=1-4 delims=/ " %%i in ("%date%") do (
set dow=%%i
set month=%%j
set day=%%k
set year=%%l
)
set datestr=%year%-%month%-%day%
echo datestr is %datestr%

set BACKUP_FILE=BACKUP_%datestr%
echo backup file name is %BACKUP_FILE%

Dates in filenames

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