create text file with name as date automaticly

[a117yogi]

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

[Sidewinder]

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.

[a117yogi]

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

[Sidewinder]

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.

[a117yogi]

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

[Sidewinder]

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.  

[a117yogi]

un fortunletly it still dont work

[Sidewinder]

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!

[a117yogi]

your going to hate me but it still dont work

[Sidewinder]

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!

[a117yogi]

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):

[Sidewinder]

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*]

[a117yogi]

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 -

[Sidewinder]

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.

[uli_glueck]

I found solutions to do it with dos.
Donīt 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

[a117yogi]

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