Another date batch file question
Sorry for the repost as I assume this has been covered multiple times. I just cant seem find anything specific to workout. I want a specific format for a file name to be created for users in a directory as shown
thats the format, this backup is performed every Wednesday so the "Wed_" part doesnt need to be changed. (just month, day and year)
the directory in question is:
how do I go about doing this so that Wed_ is in the file name with the specific date format?
Please be more specific about the format. May is a horrible example.
Are you looking for:
I can tell you from doing things like this I usually prefer <year>-<month>-<day> as it sorts properly. Also, is using the Wed a requirement? If it will always be Wednesday, why do you need it?
Last edited by Eremius; May 22nd, 2012 at 10:22 AM.
Reason: New ideas
Ah yes, I should have clarified this more. Three letter month should be fine, Jan, May, Jun, etc. The Wed doesn't have to be on there I guess, it's just that the users I'm dealing with aren't the sharpest and may put their work in a different file (there's also language barriers too).
So 3 digit month, followed by day then 4 digit year would be the best.
I'm just having a hard time doing this for each user. I don't have a lot of experience with batch files. The \Student1\ part would be from Student1....Student17. I don't want to make a separate line for each student but if I have to I will. Thereís also another part, the \APK\ for each user changes too. The 3 subfolders are \APK, \FRE, \PIN. So as you can see it would be a lot of lines for 17 Students with 3 date stamped folders in each. Thatís why Iím here because I know thereís an easier way, something like a For statement I just donít know how to use it properly.
So to recap:
ďJUN06-2012Ē could be a potential name for the folder, and I need to find out how to do if for each Student.