whats the easiest way to do this?

Basically, what I want to do is compare the dates of two files (call
them file1 and file2). If file2 has a more recent date than file1, then

file2 should overwrite file1.


The application we run has got a sort of scheduled jobs thing so we
will be using this. It can execute a dos batch file or any executable.
If its easily done in a dos batch file this would be easy I guess.

On 29 Jun 2006 04:44:03 -0700, (E-Mail Removed) wrote:

> whats the easiest way to do this?
>
> Basically, what I want to do is compare the dates of two files (call
> them file1 and file2). If file2 has a more recent date than file1, then
>
> file2 should overwrite file1.
>
>
> The application we run has got a sort of scheduled jobs thing so we
> will be using this. It can execute a dos batch file or any executable.
> If its easily done in a dos batch file this would be easy I guess.


@echo off
xcopy "c:\file2.ext" "d:\file1.ext" /d /y

If you have access to the Windows Resource toolkit, use robocopy.

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news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> whats the easiest way to do this?
>
> Basically, what I want to do is compare the dates of two files (call
> them file1 and file2). If file2 has a more recent date than file1, then
>
> file2 should overwrite file1.
>
>
> The application we run has got a sort of scheduled jobs thing so we
> will be using this. It can execute a dos batch file or any executable.
> If its easily done in a dos batch file this would be easy I guess.
>

In alt.msdos.batch.nt foxidrive wrote:

> On 29 Jun 2006 04:44:03 -0700, (E-Mail Removed) wrote:
>
>> whats the easiest way to do this?
>>
>> Basically, what I want to do is compare the dates of two files
>> (call them file1 and file2). If file2 has a more recent date
>> than file1, then
>>
>> file2 should overwrite file1.
>>
>>
>> The application we run has got a sort of scheduled jobs thing
>> so we will be using this. It can execute a dos batch file or
>> any executable. If its easily done in a dos batch file this
>> would be easy I guess.
>
>
> @echo off
> xcopy "c:\file2.ext" "d:\file1.ext" /d /y

Other notes:
the obscure REPLACE.EXE command for some conditions
DIR /O if using a sensible Date format such as YYYY-MM-DD
may be useful in some conditions.