Quick cleaning up desktop from old files

[Jonny]

Guys,

Please your kind help with a small batch file that is doing following:

1. Creates a new folder under path : "C:\Users\jonny\xxx\yyy\temp" in format DDMMMYYYY (ex. 26JAN2018)
2. Moving into this new folder all files located on Desktop

That's all..

You help will be much appreciated.

The next phase is to schedule PC to do this automatically.

[Squashman]

An A-Z Index of the Windows CMD command line

[Jonny]

Is this a joke? Sorry for not having time to learn all the commands.
May someone just help with the solution?

Thanks

[aGerman]

Is this a joke? Sorry for not having time to learn all the commands.

DosTips is not RentACoder. So yes, we expect that you take the time to learn Batch as well as you expect that the volunteers take their free time to help you with your code.

May someone just help with the solution?

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@echo off &setlocal
for %%i in ("01=JAN","02=FEB","03=MAR","04=APR","05=MAY","06=JUN","07=JUL","08=AUG","09=SEP","10=OCT","11=NOV","12=DEC") do set "M%%~i"
for /f "delims=." %%i in ('wmic os get LocalDateTime /value') do for /f %%j in ("%%i") do set "%%j"
set "YYYY=%LocalDateTime:~,4%" &call set "MMM=%%M%LocalDateTime:~4,2%%%" &set "DD=%LocalDateTime:~6,2%"
2>nul md "%userprofile%\xxx\yyy\temp\%DD%%MMM%%YYYY%"
for /f "delims=" %%i in ('dir /b "%userprofile%\desktop\*.*"^|findstr /vie "\.lnk \.url"') do (
  move "%userprofile%\desktop\%%i" "%userprofile%\xxx\yyy\temp\%DD%%MMM%%YYYY%\"
)

Steffen

[ShadowThief]

Let me narrow that down for you.

https://ss64.com/nt/md.html
https://ss64.com/nt/move.html
https://stackoverflow.com/a/19741875/4158862

[Jonny]

Thank you, Steffen, I will try this and let you know.

[Jonny]

This looked to me too much complicated, so I've built a new one:
Looks at this , much more readable solution:

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@echo off &setlocal
md "C:\Users\YYY\OneDrive - XXX\Documents\temp\%DATE:~3,2%%DATE:~0,2%%DATE:~8,4%
move "C:\Users\YYY\OneDrive - XXX\Desktop\*.*" "C:\Users\YYY\OneDrive - XXX\Documents\temp\%DATE:~3,2%%DATE:~0,2%%DATE:~8,4%
pause

What's the difference?

[Squashman]

This looked to me too much complicated, so I've built a new one:
Looks at this , much more readable solution:

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@echo off &setlocal
md "C:\Users\YYY\OneDrive - XXX\Documents\temp\%DATE:~3,2%%DATE:~0,2%%DATE:~8,4%
move "C:\Users\YYY\OneDrive - XXX\Desktop\*.*" "C:\Users\YYY\OneDrive - XXX\Documents\temp\%DATE:~3,2%%DATE:~0,2%%DATE:~8,4%
pause

What's the difference?

You changed the scope of your request then.

Your original request said to do the date like this.

1. Creates a new folder under path : "C:\Users\jonny\xxx\yyy\temp" in format DDMMMYYYY (ex. 26JAN2018)

Your new code will only work on computers that have the same regional settings as you. The code provided to you is region independent.