Windows 7 - Batch file , change filename with system date and time infor

I wrote a bat file, to change a file name, test.txt to testMonthDayYearTime.txt



here is what i wrote:
ren c:\example\test.txt test%date:~4,2%%date:~7,2%%date:~10,4%%time:~0,2%%time:~3,2%%time:~6,2%%.txt”



But after running, the file name is test12182010 093012.txt, a space is between date and time. I don;t want the space. Anyone know what's wrong.

i used the same routine to set an environmental variable with your routine and it
worked fine.

set xx= test%date:~4,2%%date:~7,2%%date:~10,4%%time:~0,2%%time:~3,2%%time:~6,2%%.txt

xx= test12192010150311.txt

something tells me that your time display settings could be different than mine.

I love batch files.

Rich

You're missing a double quote. Try this:

ren test.txt "test%date:~4,2%%date:~7,2%%date:~10,4%%time:~0,2%%time:~3,2%%time:~6,2%%.txt"

When I did it from a Command Prompt, I got: test12192010221526.txt

Put it in a batch file and it still works, got: test12192010221739.txt