Vbscript Rename A File With Date Software
Come Foglie Malika Ayane. I have a command script (.cmd) that has been running for a long time and has been great. Currently it does one thing - copies a file from one server to another server. Now however the file name needs to be renamed after some software upgrades and modifications. I can do a simple rename in the same.cmd file, BUT I want to rename the file with yesterday's date. This is my current command script: copy /Y rename CT. Dragon Ball Z Budokai Tenkaichi 3 Pc Game there. csv The above works great. BUT I need to add to the new files name. CT.csv should read CTmmddyy.csv where mmddyy is yesterdays date.
Quickly rename files with this script. As you can see, the Rename Files script is far superior to the file renaming methods that Windows and DOS provide. Feb 22, 2010 How can I rename a file to include yesterdays date in the file name by using a Command Script File. To be renamed after some software upgrades and.
I have added the following in above my rename statement (found online using searches); FOR /F 'TOKENS=1,2 DELIMS=/ '%%A IN ('DATE /T') DO SET mm=%%B FOR /F 'TOKENS=2,3 DELIMS=/ '%%A IN ('DATE /T') DO SET dd=%%B FOR /F 'TOKENS=3* DELIMS=/ '%%A IN ('DATE /T') DO SET yyyy=%%B set /A dd=%dd%-1 set Pdate=%mm%/%dd%/%yyyy% and then modified my rename to show as follows: rename CT%Pdate%.csv I end up with the file being named CTPdate.csv. Can someone help me to understand howto get my variable to be recognized as a variable and not a constant? This is my first dealing with both command scripting and posting to this forum, so please bear with me if I have 'misplaced this question'.

Any help is greatly appreciated! As everyone has said, working with dates in batch is a real pain, if you need to do any math. Your approach fails on two counts. First subtracting one from the day number works on every day except the first day of the month.
Also, file names cannot have embedded slashes. I can't quite figure out how you're ending up with a file named CTPdate.csv, unless the rename is done at the command prompt and the variable PDate is undefined. I usually resort to a little VBS script embedded in the batch to do date math, something like this. Echo wsh.echo 'yesterday='^&date-1 >%temp% tmp.vbs for /f 'delims='%%a in ('cscript.exe //nologo%temp% tmp.vbs') do set%%a del%temp% tmp.vbs copy /Y BTW, I combined the rename and copy into one statement. OK.1 more questions. Marriage License Civil Ceremony Los Angeles. I wanted to add the leading 0 in front of the months 1-9, to show a two digit month. I was able to do so just by modifying to, but of course I will hvae to go back in and modify it again on the 1st of Ocober and remove the 0.
Then, I modified 'mm=%%a' to show 'mm:~1,2=%%a' Thinking I would ask for the month starting at position 0 and asking for 2 characters. Yeah - that did nothing for me. Where and how could I modify the month & day to make sure there are always two digits shown? Is this possible? I know the system date shown in command windown displays with 2 digits, so I have to go with - it is possible, just not sure how much work it is to modify.