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Posted: **09 Mar 2009 05:27**

Hello,

iam having trouble finding the date of a file.

can i pass the date of when a file was created to a variable?

I then to move it if its a centain date

thanks in advance

Posted: **09 Mar 2009 07:52**

What date?

Is this the date the file was created? Or, is the date inside the name of the file? (ie FileName-20090309.txt)

Need some additional information here.

What are you trying to do with the file?

-R

Posted: **09 Mar 2009 08:42**

it is the date for file was created

I have worked out how to display the date for example: -

FOR %%i IN (test.txt) DO (

ECHO Last-Modified Date : %%~ti SET %var = %ti%

)

when i try and pass %ti% to %var and display that it dont like it

and when i try and echo %var I want it to display the date it was created

then if its a centain date move it to a different directory

Thanks

Posted: **09 Mar 2009 11:20**

Try something similar to:

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SETLOCAL ENABLEEXTENSIONS
SETLOCAL ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION

Echo Enter Date for file selection
Set /P indate=Date: 

If /I [%indate%] equ [] goto Exit

Echo Selecting files with a modified date of %indate%
Echo;

FOR %%i IN (test.txt) DO ( 
     Set "n=%%~nxi"
     Set "ti=%%~ti"

     If /I [!ti!] equ [%indate%] (
        Echo --Moving File Name: !n!  Last Modified:  !ti!
        Move %%i \NewFolder
     )  Else (
        Echo --Skipping File:  !n!
     )
) 

:Exit

Posted: **09 Mar 2009 13:33**

thanks for your help

I am still having a few problems tho

I think for some reason when it returns the Date back via "ti" it also returns the time as well ie:-

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!ti! = 09/03/2009 18:08

I have tryed to modifie the string:-

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set ti=%ti:~0,10%

if i just and echo the string !ti! again i get rubbish

or maybe there an easy way round it?

Thanks again

Posted: **09 Mar 2009 14:28**

Try this instead...

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FOR %%i IN (test.txt) DO ( 
     Set "n=%%~nxi" 
     Set "ti=%%~ti" 
     Set "da=!ti:~0,10!"

     If /I [!ti!] equ [%indate%] ( 
        Echo --Moving File Name: !n!  Last Modified:  !da! 
        Move %%i \NewFolder 
     )  Else ( 
        Echo --Skipping File:  !n! 
     ) 
)

Posted: **09 Mar 2009 15:00**

its works

thanks so much for your help