I'm having a moment, can you help? :-)

I just want to set up a .bat file in my windows box to take a log file,
rename it with a date/timestamp and then move /copy it off to another dir.

It's the setting of date/time vars and/or calling them correctly when I try to envoke a rename command on the target file that eludes me.


I found the following but it's not setting the date/time var up correctly and does not work

c:
cd\hub\logs

for /f "delims=" %%a in ('wmic OS Get localdatetime ^| find "."') do set "dt=%%a"
set "YY=%dt:~2,2%"
set "YYYY=%dt:~0,4%"
set "MM=%dt:~4,2%"
set "DD=%dt:~6,2%"
set "HH=%dt:~8,2%"
set "Min=%dt:~10,2%"
set "Sec=%dt:~12,2%"

set datestamp=%YYYY%%MM%%DD%
set timestamp=%HH%%Min%%Sec%
set fullstamp=%YYYY%-%MM%-%DD%_%HH%-%Min%-%Sec%

ren "c:\hub\logs\fecho.txt" "%fullstamp%.txt"
goto done


`I'm not expendable, I'm not stupid, and I'm not going' - Kerr Avon, Blake's 7

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I'm having a moment, can you help? :-)
I just want to set up a .bat file in my windows box to take a log file, rename it with a date/timestamp and then move /copy it off to another
dir.

I don't actually know anything about batch scripting on windows. I'm a unix
guy through and through, and that whole script could be replaced with a one-liner in linux:

mv $sourcefile $(date +"%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M-%S").txt

:)

I did start looking into that script, but I think windows uses variables differently on the command line and in scripts, and one uses %% and one uses
% and I can't remember which is which.

for /f "delims=" %%a in ('wmic OS Get localdatetime ^| find "."') do set "dt=%%a"

If I run the wmic command from the CLI, it doesn't work if I include the ^ symbol.

And I can't see why the delims are set to nothing (ie; "delims=" when there
are no characters that act as delimiters in the output of the wmic command.
So that just seems pointless.

But I get different errors depending on which parts of the code I try to
"fix."

BAT files really are just batch files. That is, a batch of CLI commands. It's not a scripting language or script interpreter, and you're really hamstrung
by it. My understanding is that windows powershell fixes this hole, but I've never used it myself.

Another option open to you would be to install Cygwin, which gives you unix-like commands and scripting power from Windows.

Although, if this is your only scripting requirement that might be overkill.
:)

Just found this on powershell renaming:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14945253/powershell-file-rename-date-time

and wow.. this piece of code:

Get-ChildItem "$dlpath\*.pgp" | ForEach-Object {
Move-Item $_.FullName "$BackupFolder$($_.BaseName -replace " ", "_" -replace '\.([^\.]+)$')-$(Get-Date -Format "MMddyyyy-HHmmss").pgp"
}

shows me Windows is waaaaaay too complex for me.

:) Sorry, outta my league.

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On 10/18/14, Spiro Dotgeek pondered and said...

:) Sorry, outta my league.

Heh... yeah me too I'm going to seek wider help in another echo. What I supplied I sourced from the net and it's not working as expected but then I think that's because there are differing versions of DOS :-(

Fun times for a Saturday night!


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On 10/18/14, Spiro Dotgeek pondered and said...

I don't actually know anything about batch scripting on windows. I'm a unix guy through and through, and that whole script could be replaced
with a one-liner in linux:

Success it's %date:~-4,4%-%date:~-7,2%-%date:~-10,2%-filename.txt

From the web

The :~ substring command works like this:

:~[START POS],[LENGTH]

If [START_POS] is positive or zero the substring will start from the left. If the number [START_POS] is negative it will start from the right. And [LENGTH] is the number of characters in the opposite direction of the starting point.


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Heh... yeah me too I'm going to seek wider help in another echo. What I supplied I sourced from the net and it's not working as expected but
then I think that's because there are differing versions of DOS :-(

Not terribly surprising. So much for compatibility. :(

Fun times for a Saturday night!

What are you doing at home? You should have been HAMming it up at Shag
Valley! ;)

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Success it's %date:~-4,4%-%date:~-7,2%-%date:~-10,2%-filename.txt

Cool! That's a lot less convoluted. haha

The :~ substring command works like this:
:~[START POS],[LENGTH]

That's a good one to know.

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On 10/19/14, Spiro Dotgeek pondered and said...

What are you doing at home? You should have been HAMming it up at Shag Valley! ;)

Heh, yep.... I have kids at learn to sail classes on Sunday morning so based
at home this weekend. Still I can give it a push on Fido. I'm getting a lot
of emails coming into the webmaster account on zl4aa.org from a bunch of HAM operators making contact with the station - really cool.


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On 10/19/14, Spiro Dotgeek pondered and said...

Cool! That's a lot less convoluted. haha

The :~ substring command works like this:
:~[START POS],[LENGTH]

That's a good one to know.

Always a good feeling when you suss a problem. That and getting your .bat to
do what it should!


`I'm not expendable, I'm not stupid, and I'm not going' - Kerr Avon, Blake's 7

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Heh, yep.... I have kids at learn to sail classes on Sunday morning so based at home this weekend. Still I can give it a push on Fido. I'm getting a lot of emails coming into the webmaster account on zl4aa.org from a bunch of HAM operators making contact with the station - really cool.

That's great. And seeing that there are big organised events will motivate me to push for getting my license, or at least studying hard for it. :)

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Always a good feeling when you suss a problem. That and getting your
.bat to do what it should!

haha, yeah, and no matter how often I tell myself "I must test my scripts in
a non-destructive environment," it's yet to sink in. ;)

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