Date/timestamping filenames/foldernames in a Windows Batch file

Okay. How the blinking hell do you use the %date% and %time% variables, or the time and date commands to put a datestamp on a filename/foldername. You can't use either in either, cause they have charachters like / and . and :, which you cant have in filenames or foldernames.

What has to be done?

 

Guess you are running WinXP or something, maybe this can guide you:

 

Yes, sorry, I should have mentioned.
but....
echo blah %date:~10,4%
outputs "blah "
and nothing else. Am I doing somthing wrong? Do I need somthing installed?

 

Hm.

This is interesting. The above batch works, in as far as it makes a datestamp folder. However, I want to time-stamp the filenames. I dont know how the for /f statement works, and I've tried substituting the date /t section to time /t section, and i just get the minutes. All I need really is the hour and minutes to put on the end of the file (so somelog-1350.log). I dont really understand how I can do that right now using that statement.

 

Hmm, I've worked it out. Sure is ugly though!

Code:

  @ECHO off

  :: Extract DATE tokens to D
  FOR /F "delims=:-. " %%C IN ('time /t') DO SET H=%%C
  FOR /F "tokens=2-4 delims=:-. " %%G IN ('time /t') DO SET M=%%G%%H%%I
  FOR /F "tokens=2-4 delims=/-. " %%P IN ('date /t') DO SET D=%%R%%Q%%P

  :: Expand D in your line and remove ECHO.{demo!} to activate it
  ECHO "C:\logs\%D%\log-%H%-%M%"

There must be an easier way to get the time out (in the same way as date..)

 

I scracth my head every time I hear people wanted to do things like this with batch files..

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnclinic/html/scripting06112002.asp

 

Yeeahh... but I don't know about WMI (yet)

 

put your batch down and walk away... now pick up WMI.. if you can do VBScript, you can pick up wmi rather quickly.

 

C:\WMI\physical_memory.vbs(3, 1) Microsoft VBScript runtime error: Permission denied: 'GetObject'

when trying to connect to my Win2003 server

And also why do MSDN code samples have to by SO DARN SMALL! I have to turn up the text size loads just even to be able to read them... and the rest of the text looks massive!

 

Works when I want to do it to myself, however... Hmm

 

Waaw! WMI is cool!

Not so great for copying files, well, not yet anyway. I'd imagine that the FileSystemObject in VBScript would do that for me, but then thats not really WMI, its just a VBScript.

I'm gunna have to do some learning

 

Dammit, i think my brain is about to explode!!

 

yeah, there's some really cool stuff in there..

here's my script for enabling and disabling System Restore on winxp


VBS file:
____________
If MsgBox("Click ok to disable System Restore for all volumes. Click Cancel to enable", vbOKCancel, "System Restore Manipulator") = vbCancel Then

ena
Else
dis
End If





Sub dis()
strComputer = "."
Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:\\" & strComputer & "\root\default")
Set objItem = objWMIService.Get("SystemRestore")
errResults = objItem.Disable("")
msgbox "System Restore Disabled",vbOKOnly,"Disabled!"

End Sub

Sub ena()
strComputer = "."
Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:\\" & strComputer & "\root\default")
Set objItem = objWMIService.Get("SystemRestore")
errResults = objItem.enable("")
msgbox "System Restore Enabled",vbOKOnly,"Enabled!"




End Sub

 

Oo, groovy little script I was going to modify it to check whether it was enabled... but for some reason there isn't a "status" property in either SystemRestore OR SystemRestoreConfig. Bizarre.

I has gotta think of somthing to do with it so I can work out what I can do with it

 

wow that looks extremely hard. is wmi harder than c++?

 

it's just different is all. If you're using to VB then it's pretty easy to pick up. It just involves a whole other class of objects really..

 

Monkeys can code VB

http://www.newtechusa.com/PPI/main.asp

 

har har... read that joke a bout a year ago..lol

 

OMG, i rock... i made a WMI script to do somthing useful... using a class ive never used before... !! YAY!