Monthly Download of Files

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guru_sanjay · #1 Post by **guru_sanjay** » 25 Jun 2009 03:42

Hi,
We have to schedule an Batch file which connects to an FTP site and download files on the last working day of every month.

Our query is to calculate the weekday given an particular date of a month.

Please guide us on the above.

Regards
Sanjay

jaffamuffin · #2 Post by **jaffamuffin** » 25 Jun 2009 06:53

I think this might depend on regional settings to make things quick and easy.

On my XP box:

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C:\>echo %date%
25/06/2009

on my win2k box

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Z:\>echo %date%
Thu 25/06/2009

Just extract the name from the output.

Other wise some kind of math calcualtion is going to have to be performed.

Or just have a separate text file with the start day of each month for the next few years or whatever, then just calcuate the difference.

ghostmachine4 · #3 Post by **ghostmachine4** » 25 Jun 2009 07:45

download GNU coreutils and use the GNU date command

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C:\test>date_gnu.exe "+%A" -d "2009-06-29"
Monday

avery_larry · #4 Post by **avery_larry** » 25 Jun 2009 09:56

You found the right website -- just needed to look in a different place:

http://www.dostips.com/DtTipsDateTime.php