If Date not equal to today then run a command??

[tbharber]

Hey all,

I have a variable which has stored the modification date of a file in the format MM/DD/YYYY (ie. 05/27/2013) What I am trying to do is compare the date to today's, and if it is not the same then run a command. I am not sure how to do this because Windows stores the variable %date% as "Day MM/DD/YYYY" (ie. Mon 05/27/2013)

If I try to compare my variable to %DATE% it always comes back false.

example...

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if %myvar%=%date% echo "File has been updated today" else (Run Command Here)

I know this is super simple, I just do not know how to grab part of a variable. Any help would be awesome!

[Endoro]

you can try this:

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for /f "tokens=2" %%i in ("%date%") do set "cdate=%%i"
echo %cdate%

[tbharber]

That looks like it will work, but for whatever reason I cannot get it to say it is equal. The statement I gave above was a more simplified version of what I have. This is the code with your code included....

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for %%i in (
   scrfaxp5
   scrfaxp6
   srrfaxp5
   srrfaxp6
   ) do (
for /f "tokens=2" %%i in ("%date%") do set "cdate=%%i"
for /f %%a in ('dir \\%%i\d$\rightfax\Database\MaintAgingAndPurging.log ^|findstr MaintAgingAndPurging.log') do set 
currentserverdate=%%a & if %%i==scrfaxp5 (
set server1=%%i last modified:!currentserverdate!
echo !server1!
if !currentserverdate!==!cdate! (echo Modified Today) else (echo Not Modified Today)
)
)

If I echo !currentserverdate! and !cdate! they both show as 05/27/2013, but for whatever reason when I test to see if they are equal in the IF statement, it doesn't work. It keeps Echoing the 2nd statement "Not Modified Today" even though they are both the same.

[Endoro]

try it with double quotes:

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do set "currentserverdate=%%a" & ....

[tbharber]

Yep that was it. Thanks a ton!