Batch file question

[JOhnathan.Pierce]

This is hard to word but I will do my best. What I am trying to do is make backups of backups basically. I have several files and folders in FOLDER1. What I want to do is make a batch file that will move my files and folders from FOLDER1 to FOLDER2. At the same time everytime I run this batch file I want it to create a folder in FOLDER2 with the month,day,year,time as the folder name because I am going to be running this batch everyday and I don't want it to overwrite my previous files. Is there anyway to do this.

Thank you

[Salmon Trout]

It would help to get the folder name right, (the date and time part) if you tell us your system's date format. You can do this by opening a command window and typing

@ECHO %DATE% [hit ENTER]

then

@ECHO %TIME% [hit ENTER]

and copying and pasting the results here.

[JOhnathan.Pierce]

I actually got it figured out last night using this for future reference.

@For /F "tokens=2,3,4 delims=/ " %%A in ('Date /t') do @(
                Set Month=%%A
                Set Day=%%B
                Set Year=%%C
)

REM @echo DAY = %Day%
REM @echo Month = %Month%
REM @echo Year = %Year%

Thank you

[Raven19528]

You may be overcomplicating your file a little with the FOR command. This will accomplish the same thing (as it looks from the way you wrote your FOR command it looks like you have the NA date format.)

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set day=%date:~7,2%
set month=%date:~4,2%
set year=%date:~10%

Or even better, if you were looking for a same line solution:

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md %date:~4,2%-%date:~7,2%-%date:~10%

This doesn't help with the time variable, in which case I would say your best bet would be to use the FOR command to parse that out.

[JOhnathan.Pierce]

Ah I see. Very good point. Thank you. I wil use that instead.