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Will this help? For /F "Tokens=6 Delims=+" %%a In ('FindStr/BC:"UNB" D:\atemp\test.txt') Do ( Set "hard=%%a") ( For /F "Tokens=3 Delims=+" %%b In ('FindStr/BC:"BGM" D:\atemp\test.txt' ) Do Echo=%hard% %%b)>>D:\atemp\output.txt Thanks Compo! That wor...

I'm trying to do something similar to the above . I want to pull a string , where the line begins with UNB ,from any line in a specific file * There should on be on instance of this in the file*** I also would like to pull another string , where the line begins with BGM ,from any line in a specific ...

The script is doing everything i want to but it is not picking the first/oldest file from the folder P:\Gensrvnt\workdir\CUSTDCHECK\ echo on cd.. cd workdir\CUSTDCHECK IF NOT EXIST P:\Gensrvnt\workdir\CUSTDCHECK\o_100_00000000* GOTO end REM GET CURRENT TIME(MINUTES only!!) set mm=%time:~3,-6% REM ge...

for %%a in (*.*) do set FileDate=%%~ta How do I just get the oldest file in the folder and only use that time. (Squeezeman) - I have read for/? and nothing jumps out at me that can carry this out. There is nothing in the FIND command that does it by oldest file either which was another thought Ther...

foxidrive wrote:use for %%a in (*.*) do set FileDate=%%~ta

Foxi to the rescue (as always)
thanks again kind sir

When I open a command prompt window and run each of the lines it does exactly what I want it to do. -Variable(mm) assigned to current time minutes -Variable (ff)assigned to File time minutes - Variable(cc) assigned to current time minutes minus File time Minutes -If CC is greater than 10 then I have...

penpen wrote:The problem is that the 08 (and 09) are no valid numbers as a leading 0 tells the interpreter to treat this as an octal value and 08 (and 09 are no valid octal numbers)

This may be fixed for example in this way:

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set /a "bb=1%aa%-101"

penpen

Thanks Pen Pen

The script is in bold and has worked for several months. For some reason that I do not understand it is not running this month echo on set ff=%date:~6% set aa=%date:~3,-5% if %date:~3,-5%==01 set /a ff=%date:~6%-1 set /a bb=%aa%-1 if %bb%==1 set bb=01 if %bb%==2 set bb=02 if %bb%==3 set bb=03 if %bb...

foxidrive wrote:XXcopy from http://www.xxcopy.com has minute granularity.

Thanks foxi. I will have a look

1.Need to check the date/time of the oldest files in a folder 2. If any of the the files are older than 30 minutes 3.move the files to a error folder Was looking at robocoy but that seems to be only able to move based on day robocopy D:DOS\TEST\ D:DOS\SUCCESS\ *.* /MINAGE:1 I need this set to 30 min...

Thanks Everyone that is working perfectly now

Really impressed.

Thank Dave

I neglected to factor in the year
Much appreciated

dbenham wrote:What about Feb 2013

I assume #2012 refers to the year, so shouldn't that also get incremented at some point

I know Bowlardo didn't specify the requirement, but it seems like a problem to me. (easily fixed, I know)


Dave Benham

my script is intended to run every month on the 1st day of the month and get all of last month's file containing a specific text. It is doing this perfectly at the moment. The only issue is that I will have to edit the month number highlighlighted below every month. need to get today's date extract ...

Thanks Foxidrive. That worked perfectly.

Much appreciated

Search&copy file containing specifc text to a certain path (on a daily basis) I am searching the sub folders of the following path P:\Gent\IntIn\#2012\06\28 (P:\Gent\IntIn\#2012\06\>findstr /s /m "SDT=:034273901" *.* ) I am using the command findstr /s /m "SDT=:034273901" *....