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Add date and time to a file name

Kyris — Mon, 04 Nov 2013 04:47:59 GMT

Could someone please let me know how I can add the date and time to a file name so that it makes it unique...easy in unix but do not seem to be able to do it in Windows.
I already have a vbs that adds the date but I now also need the time.
I include the script that may help someone that knows this well to just add the missing 'bits'.

thanks
kyris

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Re: Add date and time to a file name

Pat Flanagan — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 20:18:49 GMT

Kyris,

I'm certain that this has come up in the forums before, about a year ago or so.

Go to the Forums advanced search link at the top of this page, and search in both ITRC and Business Support forums.

Pat

Re: Add date and time to a file name

Kyris — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 01:20:10 GMT

Pat,

Thanks for your reply..I appreciate it. I had a quick look but could not find anything but I will have a more thorough look later on using various criteria in the search.
thanks kyris

Re: Add date and time to a file name

Kyris — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 08:53:22 GMT

Perhaps there is a simpler way but here it is adding the date to a file name - set in a batch file...

set YYYYMMDD=%DATE:~10,4%%DATE:~7,2%%DATE:~4,2%

type c:\reports\myreport.txt >> c:\reports\myreport_%YYYYMMDD%.txt