Listing files created or modified on a certain date

[aanvd]

In the old MS-DOS there was a way to LIST ONLY the files created in a certain time window for instance 2009-05-11 to 2009-05-12 using the /D switch. For instance:

DIR /s /o /p /d=05-12-2009

However that does not work under command prompt. Can anyone suggest how I could accomplish that?

Thanks

[Geek-9pm]

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DIR /s /o /p /d=05-12-2009Are you sure of that syntax?
Which version of DOS?

[devcom]

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DIR /S /P /O D=05-12-2009should work

[aanvd]

Version of DOS: I am not sure, it was a long time ago but it had to be 6.0 or earlier.

DIR D=01-31-2008     did not work (I used that date totest because there is a file with that date in the directory.)

Any other suggestions?

Thanks

[devcom]

you need /O switch:

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DIR /O D=05-12-2009

[Dias de verano]

you need /O switch:

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DIR /O D=05-12-2009

which version has that /d=MM-DD-YYYY switch? Because I've never seen it and I started with MS-DOS 3.30.

I believe aanvd may be misremembering.

[devcom]

i was reading dir /? to fast and didnt chcek it, sry for that, and i think for loop will be good here

[gh0std0g74]

use vbscript

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Set objFS = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
strFolder = "c:\test"
Set objFolder = objFS.GetFolder(strFolder)
For Each strFile In objFolder.Files
strDate = FormatDateTime(strFile.DateCreated,vbShortDate)
    If strDate = "5/12/2009" Or strDate = "5/13/2009" Then
    WScript.Echo strFile.Name
    End If
Next

save as myscript.vbs and on command prompt

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c:\test> cscript /nologo myscript.vbs

if you want to do in batch, use the for loop with delim and tokens set ,  go over dir /tc, get the creation date, compare with what date you want and echo out the result.

[Reno]

something similar to /d switch is the xcopy

  /D:m-d-y     Copies files changed on or after the specified date.
               If no date is given, copies only those files whose
               source time is newer than the destination time.

the code:

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C:\>md fakedir

C:\>echo.nnnnnnnnnnnnnn|xcopy *.txt fakedir /d:05-1-09/p
C:filename.txt (Y/N)? n
C:index.txt (Y/N)? n
C:n10.txt (Y/N)? n
C:newfile.txt (Y/N)? n
C:order.txt (Y/N)? n
C:save.txt (Y/N)? n
C:seven 7.TXT (Y/N)? n
C:sevench.txt (Y/N)? n
C:test.txt (Y/N)? n
0 File(s) copied

[Dias de verano]

xxcopy is free for personal use, has syntax which is a superset of xcopy, has a "list files which would be copied" mode (like xcopy), and crucially considering the original question, can be instructed to work with a date range. (unlike xcopy).