create text file with name as date automaticly

how do i create a txt file with the day it was created as the filename

There are many different techniques to do this. Without knowing your OS I would be just guessing as to which one would work on your machine.



PS. This question has been answered many times in this forum. A search of the Computer Hope forums may turn up an answer faster than posting.

Let us know.

my os is windows 98 and i could not find any thing about what i need

I guess a simple search is not what it once was. In any case, I don't recall when the /t switch became valid with the date command but this should work.

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for /f "tokens=2-4 delims=/ " %%a in ('date /t') do (
     set mo=%%a
     set da=%%b
     set yr=%%c
     )

Once you have the %mo%, %da%, and %yr% variables, you can do most anything with them including naming files.

Good luck.

It d didint work

C:\WINDOWS\Desktop\bats>for /f "tokens=2-4 delims=/ " %a in
Syntax error

C:\WINDOWS\Desktop\bats> set mo=%a

C:\WINDOWS\Desktop\bats> set da=%b

C:\WINDOWS\Desktop\bats> set yr=%c

C:\WINDOWS\Desktop\bats> )
Bad command or file name

C:\WINDOWS\Desktop\bats>ren jornal\today.txt %a ,%b ,%c .txt

Good grief, just how primitive is Win98? Always more than one way to do something:

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@echo off
for /f "tokens=6-8 delims=/: " %%a in ('echo. ^| date') do (
           set mm=%%a
           set dd=%%b
           set yy=%%c
     )
echo %mm%-%dd%-%yr%


If you type echo. | date at the command line, you can see how to parse command output.  

un fortunletly it still dont work

Not to worry. Just a typo.

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@echo off
for /f "tokens=6-8 delims=/: " %%a in ('echo. ^| date') do (
 set mm=%%a
 set dd=%%b
 set yy=%%c
)
echo %mm%-%dd%-%yy%


Once you have isolated the date variables, you can use them wherever needed.

PS. Remember, I did warn you that a simple forum search would be faster then posting a question!

your going to hate me but it still dont work

It would be helpful if you would let us know what results you do get. If you just type date at the command prompt, what comes up? if you type date /t at the command prompt, what comes up?

Show us some results!

date
C:\WINDOWS>date
Current date is Wed 11-09-2005
Enter new date (mm-dd-yy):

date /t
C:\WINDOWS>date /t

Invalid date
Enter new date (mm-dd-yy):

Current date is Wed 11-09-2005

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@echo off
for /f "tokens=5-7 delims=^-  " %%a in ('echo. ^| date') do (
 set mm=%%a
 set dd=%%b
 set yy=%%c
)
echo %mm%-%dd%-%yr%


Based on your results, this might work. I might add that these results look strange, but then so was Win98. [*sigh*]

here is the log
C:\WINDOWS\Desktop>for /f "tokens=5-7 delims=^-  " %a in ('echo. ^| date') do (

Syntax error

C:\WINDOWS\Desktop>  set mm=%a

C:\WINDOWS\Desktop>  set dd=%b

C:\WINDOWS\Desktop>  set yy=%c

C:\WINDOWS\Desktop> )
Bad command or file name

C:\WINDOWS\Desktop>echo %a -%b -
%a -%b -

I admit there was a typo in the last post (I incorrectly used the other typo post as a guide, but you should at least get some output. I cannot recreate the syntax error even with the typo.

I couldn't find when the /f switch was first used with FOR, but I suspect it was after Win98. Are we talking Win98 or Win98SE?

Without the /f switch, I know of no way to parse in batch language. Windows Script is an option and is available free from Microsoft at WinScript 5.6...and yes, it runs on Win98.

Good luck.

I found solutions to do it with dos.
Don´t know if it is working in  win98.

These are some solutions to get data in a variable:
http://www.student.northpark.edu/pemente/sed/bat_env.htm#firstword

For me the solution with debug works perfect.  :-)

You also can use the berkeley tools.
(Some unix commands for dos and windows shell.)
Use Google, I forgot the link.

hope this helps
good luck
uli

i use win98 not win98se        

dont know if this helps but the win98 install disk was bad and i have to make do but maby the bad install messed up the dos programing

edit: maby it would be easer to put the date in a seporate file like a log and load it as a vairable