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jorgen.gustafsson@mailbox.swipnet.se (J�rgen Gustafsson) wrote:
> I'm trying to write a backup routine, my question is:
> Is it possible to create a directory (or a filename) with the  current
> date?

The easiest method would seem to involve creating a file or directory
named 96-01-22 when your DATE format is 01-22-1996. To do this just
truncate the date and prepend the "96-" string. Of course, this will
be good for only 12 months, after which you will need to edit the .bat
and change the 6 to a 7. (It's easy enough to automate that part, too,
but just doesn't seem worth the extra typing.)

DATEFILE.BAT
------------
@echo off
goto %1S
:S
copy %0.bat + nul >nul
dir %0.bat|find /i "%0 " >tmp.bat
tmp.bat
:BATS
set                                               date=96-%3
del tmp.bat

As written, an environment variable is set to the date, so you
can then create your file or directory based on the value %DATE%

Note: you must edit what I've typed and add additional spaces between
      SET and DATE to push that digit 3 right over into column 124.
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John Savage               koala@sydney.dialix.com.au