Re: append yesterday's in txt filenames

On Tue, 8 Jul 2003 09:23:32 -0700, "Ketaki" <ketakig@hotmail.com>
wrote:

>I have presently written a batchfile as follows:
>
>for /f "tokens=2" %%i in ('date /t') do set thedate=%%i
>rename c:\abc.txt %thedate:~0,2%-%thedate:~3,2%-%
>thedate:~6,4%-abc.txt
>
>This appends today's date into the filename. But how can i
>obtain yesterday's date instead?

Take a look at the following thread for a variety of methods.
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=dd%3D5546+batch.nt

Or you can use Conset (http://home.pe.net/~fpw/freeware/)

Conset /date d-1
echo Yesterday was %date%

Garry