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Jan 18, 2002 | 01:00 PM

Merou

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OT: DOS programming

I'm sure one of you guys knows how to do this... I'm working on a bat file where at one point I have to append a time flag to a file name. So I have to rename "filename.txt" to "filename.txt.Dyyyymmdd.Thhmmss" (I actually have to insert the letters "D" and "T"). How can I do that? Can I do something like:
set variable=variable & "D" & ...?
Also, is there a command that will return ONLY the hour, the minute, etc?

Thanks in advance to all you programming gurus out there

Jan 18, 2002 | 01:31 PM

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Do you mean REAL DOS or Windows Command Line?

If it's windows command line yer ok so far, If it's real DOS that file name won't work at all.

How good are you with command lines? Do you have any other applications hand that would cut off file names?

You'd need to have a batch file that did someting like this:

generate time to a text file (cmd > test.txt)
then ren <filename> < test.txt (*should take contents of text file as rest of text)

There isn't astraight command line tool avail with windows to do this. You'd have to find/make one.