Compare file date to system date and copy to archive

[bernardgbailey]

Hi team,

I've created a batch file which sets off a series of processes. 
I want to add a line into the batch file to test if the date of the file is today.  If not then stop processing.

At the end of the batch, I want to copy specified files to archive.

How would I go about these two requirements?

Cheers
Bernard

[macdad-]

How is the file named? like: 03-26-2009.txt

[Dias de verano]

How is the file named? like: 03-26-2009.txt

I believe it's a file creation date that he wants to check, not a file name, but of which file it isn't clear.

[Reno]

for today date, there is no need to ask for user system date format, check the following and you will understand.

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+C:\>echo %date%
Thu 03/26/2009

+C:\>echo %date:~-10%
03/26/2009

+C:\>set d=>file.txt & for %a in (file.txt) do @set d=%~ta & echo %~ta & call echo %d:~0,10%
03/26/2009 08:50 PM
03/26/2009

the %~ta in for loop output modified date i believe. so for creation date, using dir command is one of the method.

[Dias de verano]

the %~ta in for loop output modified date i believe. so for creation date, using dir command is one of the method.

It returns file creation date on my system

Also, date string will be different in non-US locales.

[Reno]

now i set my regional setting to albanian:

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+C:\>echo %date%
2009-03-26

+C:\>echo %date:~-10%
2009-03-26

+C:\>set d=>file.txt & for %a in (file.txt) do @set d=%~ta & echo %~ta & call echo %d:~0,10%
2009-03-26 09:08MD
2009-03-26

we only need to check for equality of 10char string here. no math involved, and no yy mm dd parsing.
only works for today date though, except bulgarian.

[Dias de verano]

we only need to check for equality of 10char string here

You're right.

[macdad-]

I believe it's a file creation date that he wants to check, not a file name, but of which file it isn't clear.

FINFO 

[bernardgbailey]

>I want to add a line into the batch file to test if the date of the file is today.  If not then stop processing.

I can see the confusion I've created here.  Sorry about that.  I want to test to see the file creation date for NEWBLUES.dbf is the same as the system date; if it is then continue processing.  If it is not then the NEWBLUES.DBF is from an earlier date and we don't want to process this.   

Does this make more sense?

>At the end of the batch, I want to copy specified files to archive.

I meant here, to copy the files into a compressed file.

Cheers
Bernard