Save a file as "Date-Time" in DOS

[nosmokingbandit]

I have a command line program that creates text/html files in a specific directory. The problem is that it will overwrite the old copies if i run it again without renaming the old copies. Is there a way to make DOS sve a file as the current date and time. The app's syntax is the following:

app.exe /shtml [filename].html

app.exe is the program of course, the /shtml tells it to save the file as html and the filename part is self explanatory. What can i do to make this save each file with a timestamped title?

[ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb]

Welcome to the Windows Forum.

It depends if you have control over your application, i.e. if you are able to modify it.

If yes, just change it to append date & time to the filename.

If not, append the DATE and TIME environment variables to the filename in your line command, e.g.

app.exe /shtml [filename.%DATE%.%TIME%].html

P.S. see this article if you want to remove dashes, colons, etc. from the standard DATE/TIME environment variables

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environment_v...crosoft_Windows

[nosmokingbandit]

Awesome. I didnt even think of checking wiki (my geek sense must be wearing thin, lol). I ended up doing this:

@echo off 
echo %DATE% %TIME%
set MTH=%DATE:~4,2%
set DAY=%DATE:~7,2%
set YR=%DATE:~12,4%
set HR=%TIME:~0,2%
set HR0=%TIME:~0,1%
if "%HR0%"==" " set HR=0%TIME:~1,1%
set MIN=%TIME:~3,2%
set SEC=%TIME:~6,2%
set MYDATE=%MTH%-%DAY%-%YR%-%HR%hr%MIN%m%SEC%s

start app.exe /shtml ff\%MYDATE%.html

which give me the output:

10-24-08-00hr39m27s.html

Could not be better, imo. Thanks a ton for the help, i really appreciate it!

[ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb]

You're welcome. You know, I didn't go and check Wikipedia, I just googled B)