Help renaming a .txt file in a .BAT file

Golden · 10 Dec 2011

G'day,

I wonder if someone could point me in the right direction?

I have a .BAT file that uses robocopy to backup my data. Part of the robocopy saves the reuslts into a log file called backup_log.txt

At the end of the .BAT file, once robocopy has been completed and the .txt file has been created, I would like to rename it such that the name of the .TXT file references the data and time.

In the CMD window I see I have access to the date /T command, but for the life of me I cannot figure out how to concatenate these commands with the .txt file. Its easy using the Unix move command..........but I'm stumped in CMD.

My goal is to rename backup_log.txt to Sat 10/12/2011_backup_log.txt.

Can anyone make some suggestions?

Thanks,
Golden

jcgriff2 · 10 Dec 2011

Hi -

Try this batch code -

Code:


@echo off
set x=_backup_log.txt
For /f "tokens=1-4 delims=/ " %%a in ('date /t') do (set d1=%%a_%%b-%%c-%%d) 
set x2=%d1%%x%
ren backup_log.txt %x2%

If backup_log.txt is still in-use (you get an "access denied" error), use copy in place of rename -

Code:


@echo off
set x=_backup_log.txt
For /f "tokens=1-4 delims=/ " %%a in ('date /t') do (set d1=%%a_%%b-%%c-%%d) 
set x2=%d1%%x%
copy backup_log.txt %x2%

End result = backup_log.txt is renamed/copied to Sat_12-10-2011_backup_log.txt - if run today.

Regards. . .

jcgriff2

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Golden · 12 Dec 2011

Excellent - that did the trick. Thanks mate.