Re: Environmental Variables batch files

Thank you very much, it is a simple and effective solution

Giuseppe

"Pegasus (MVP)" wrote:


"Giuseppe" <Giuseppe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hello
I was looking on how to do a batch file that created a folder with the
actual date.

On the internet I found this suggestion: md "%DATE:/=_%"

it works but another problem is that I want to write it in the format
yyyy-mm-dd even if the computer is set with the format dd-mm-yyyy.

Then I didn't know that was possible to change the output of an
environmental variable as "%DATE:/=_%"; do you know where can I find
something about this?

And I was looking for some good and complete resources on about writing
batch files

Thanks
Giuseppe


You will find a lot of help built into the respective commands, e.g.
set /?
for /?

In your case you need to disassemble, then reassemble the date
variable. If the command "echo %date" returns a value of
the form "ddd dd/mm/yyyy" then the following would work nicely:

dow=%date:~0,3%
day=%date:~4,2%
month=%date:~7,2%
year=%date:~10,4%

Now try this: echo %year%-%month%-%day%



.

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