need batch file help

[Simon Guertin]

Hi, I need to create a folder with the current day's date
as the name

I don't want to type in any parameter.
the first bat file look like this:

call createDir.bat time /t

second bat file looks like this:
mkdir %1

What should I do to keep it simple?

thanks

Simon

 

[Paul R. Sadowski]

Hi, I need to create a folder with the current day's date
as the name

I don't want to type in any parameter.
the first bat file look like this:

call createDir.bat time /t

time displays the time not the date. DATE /t would show the date.

I do it this way in a batch file:

setlocal ENABLEEXTENSIONS
for /f "tokens=1-2" %%c in ("%DATE%") do set TheDate=%%d
for /f "delims=/; tokens=1-3" %%c in ("%TheDate%") do set TheDate=%%c%%d%%e
mkdir X:\%TheDate%.

Which would create the dir
X:\04152004

%%c is the month
%%d is the day
%%e is the year

You can rearrange them for the best format for you in the set command.
for /f "delims=/; tokens=1-3" %%c in ("%TheDate%") do set TheDate=%%c%%d%%e
04152004
for /f "delims=/; tokens=1-3" %%c in ("%TheDate%") do set TheDate=%%e%%c%%d
20040415 (my prefered format)
for /f "delims=/; tokens=1-3" %%c in ("%TheDate%") do set TheDate=%%d%%c%%e
15042004

Should be fairly simnple to localize for your settings.

 

[wadester]

Hi, I need to create a folder with the current day's date
as the name

I don't want to type in any parameter.
the first bat file look like this:

call createDir.bat time /t

second bat file looks like this:
mkdir %1

What should I do to keep it simple?

thanks

Simon

Here it is in one line. You didn;t specify the format of the name, so
this just makes a directory named MMDDYYYY:

for /f "tokens=2,3,4 delims=/ " %i in ('date /t') do md %i%j%k

Double the % in a batch file.

ws

 

[guard]

Hi, I need to create a folder with the current day's date
as the name

I don't want to type in any parameter.
the first bat file look like this:

call createDir.bat time /t

second bat file looks like this:
mkdir %1

What should I do to keep it simple?

GetLogDate will give you YYYYMMDD in the variable #LogDate.

%.GetLogDate%
MKDIR %#LogDate%

See (http://TheSystemGuard.com/MtCmds/GetValue/GetLogDate.htm)

GetLogDate is part of the FREE Advanced Command Library.
(http://ntlib.com)

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