Batch File

Hello @zplugger,

zplugger said:

I need a batch file to create a folder with sub folders. The sub folders will be named the current date, they will go in a folder on c drive. For example we can call the folderTest and it would be in documents on c drive. Every time we run the batch file it would create a sub folder with current date.

[1] You will only be able to have one sub-folder named with the current [ today's ] date in the folder Test unless you only run the code once a day.

[2] Have you got code already?

[3] If you have, you can amend the existing code to include the current [ today's ] date if it is only run code once a day.

I hope this helps!

Right, in order to have more subfolders or files you'd have to include the time in each name or have the process append a different character. The issue is basic back to days of DOS where a folder cannot have 2 or more subfolders of the exact same name and each folder cannot have 2 or more files of the exact same name.

Hello @zplugger,

As Berton has suggested . . .

Berton said:

. . . in order to have more subfolders or files you'd have to include the time in each name or have the process append a different character.

Here is an example . . .

Code:

@echo off
cls
echo.
echo Date Format = %date%
echo.
echo dd   = %date:~0,2%
echo mm   = %date:~3,2%
echo yyyy = %date:~6,4%
echo.
echo Time Format = %time%
echo.
echo hh   = %time:~0,2%
echo mm   = %time:~3,2%
echo ss   = %time:~6,2%
echo.
echo The Current Date ^& Time Is =^> %date:~6,4%-%date:~3,2%-%date:~0,2%-%time:~0,2%-%time:~3,2%-%time:~6,2%
echo.
pause

Just incorporate the above into your code and add it to the end of the file name!

I hope this helps!

zplugger said:

I have got to to work OK, need to find a way to pin it to Task Bar.

Code:

@echo offset curr_date=%DATE:~10,4%-%DATE:~4,2%-%DATE:~7,2%mkdir "%USERPROFILE%\My Documents\Test\%curr_date%_Snipping"

- - - Updated - - -

Got it, just add Explorer in front of path.

Please mark this thread as Solved!