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Hi Antonio

Thank you very much. You saved my day

there was just one issue. the delims sign is in my computer not "/" but "."

So, now it seems to work. Will do the test with January, but I'm pretty sure this will work too.

thanks again.

br, chris

the goal is to have two variables: month=05 year=2013 with this variables the rest of the script is creating folders and files with the year and month of the previous month So, when I run this script today (June 2013) I want to write the folder: Folder1_abc_ 201305 Folder9_xyz_ 201305 I will try now...

@Aacini, thank you very much. works like a charm one other question. How can I simplify the same thing with the month? It is working as follows, but should be possible with 1-2 lines code instead of 12. set currentmonth=%date:~3,2% if "%currentmonth%" == "01" (set month=05) if &q...

Hi there I need to have a variable which contains the last year: set year=2012 Here is what I have tested so far. set currentyear=%date:~6,4% :CHANGE2LASTYEAR set /A %currentyear%-1 >%temp%\year.txt set /P year=<%temp%\year.txt Actualy this is working in a dos window, but not in a script. (set /a) s...