ive been using Dos for 2 days now and i now need some help.
im trying to create a file that will copy files from a folder that are less than 2 days old, then move them to another folder where they will then be deleted.
the trouble ive had is that all the original Dos files get deleted once ive copied and removed the files into the folder they have been moved to.
i then realised that it was either very hard or impossible to do this with a normal Dos batch file so ive decided to download xxcopy so i have more commands and options to use. i am very unfarmiliar with this software aswell as Dos itself so i need some help creating the rest of the file.
here is the contents of my file -
echo 1FileDate %1
echo 1FileName %2
echo 1TodaysDate %3
call :FileDayNo %1
set FileDays=%DateNo%
echo 1FileDays-%FileDays%
pause
rem Now Calc File Age and delete if over %FileAge% days old
pause
XXCOPY [source] [destination] /DA#2 /DB#1
pause
rem Get Date Number=============================================
: FileDayNo %1
echo in subroutinex
for /f "tokens=1-3 delims=/- " %%a in ("%1") do (
set dd=%%a
set mm=%%b
set yy=%%c
)
echo out of forloop
pause
echo Get Date:Day-%dd%
echo Get Date:Month-%mm%
echo Get Date:Year-%yy%
pause
set /a DateNo=%dd%+(%mm%*306001/10000)+(%yy%*1461/4)
echo calculated day no is-%DateNo%
pause
exit /b
Thanks,
Alex
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