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Ming
Ming

Reputation: 109

Copy a txt file with today date as file name

I have a abc.txt file. I would like to create a batch file to copy abc.txt file with today date as file name. The file name like 20150821good.txt

How can I change the following code:

copy *.txt 20150821good.txt

Upvotes: 2

Views: 86

Answers (1)

rojo
rojo

Reputation: 24466

You can use the first 8 characters of wmic os get localdatetime to get today's date. Capture it with for /f. Example:

@echo off
setlocal

for /f %%I in ('wmic os get localdatetime /value ^| find "="') do set "%%I"
set "today=%localdatetime:~0,8%"

if not exist "combined\" md combined
rem // remove "echo" when you're confident this does what you intend
echo copy *.txt "combined\%today%good.txt"

Upvotes: 1

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