Cmd create file with date

Now extract the hours, minutes, seconds, and microseconds and store them in variables. Now, you have variables having current date and time in variables. You can use and create any file name as per your requirements like:. The complete windows batch script will look like below. To test this create a file test. Save the file and execute the script. In this tutorial, you have learned to create directories or filenames based on the current date time in the Windows system.

That last example works well apart from the quotation marks around Welcome Here! It is a very clean and precise code snippet for getting the current timestamp in a DOS Batch file. Thanks again! Initialise it as follows:. The solution above breaks if you change locale.

What is wrong? Collectives on Stack Overflow. Learn more. How to create a folder with name as current date in batch. Asked 10 years, 9 months ago. Active 10 months ago. Viewed k times. Improve this question.

Ramesh Soni Ramesh Soni Does this answer your question? Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Stefano Travelli Stefano Travelli 1, 1 1 gold badge 15 15 silver badges 18 18 bronze badges. Heavily dependent on regional settings — Blorgbeard. Only on XP and higher, though. Joey Joey k 80 80 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. Excellent answer. Franck Freiburger Franck Freiburger 23k 20 20 gold badges 63 63 silver badges 93 93 bronze badges. Adriano: impressive. Opened a question for this: stackoverflow.

AdrianoRepetti: this command creates two subfolders on my machine - and Tue — itsho. You have other options too character replacing, for example but if you need a portable solution you should go with PowerShell Hope this helps! Show 1 more comment. Simon G. There is not month and day in it.

I have seen things about tokens and indices and I do not understand what those are but I am very new to scripting and am trying to learn about this. As you can see I changed the actual registry key I was looking for. Honestly any command can be put there as I am focused on trying to find out how to make the text file that is being created have the correct timestamp within the file name.

I don't even know if that is correct. I found the answer mostly with help from a co-worker and also some with various stack overflow posts. I was concerned with not only seeing the answer but what exactly was going on with the commands. Now we need to format this. For this purpose I only care for the date and time. The second line has the date and time in the format yyyymmddhhmmss with some extra gobbly goop. We obviously don't want the first line and we don't want the.

To remove this we need to format. The first is your starting value and the second is the number of characters after the starting value. We want to use the first 8 characters for the date yyymmdd and therefore we have the starting value as 0 the first and the second as 8. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams? Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes.

Improve this answer. Christopher Christopher 6 6 silver badges 7 7 bronze badges. This is a neat trick!

Is there a 'one-liner' way to get rid of spaces or other nasty characters too? No sorry. There seems to be no such thing. You have to fallback to the for syntax to do that. NB: This is a nice reference for batch-programming : robvanderwoude.

Show 2 more comments. Community Bot 1. Snark Snark Putnik 1 1 gold badge 6 6 silver badges 13 13 bronze badges. This rather horrid bit of code should do something like what you want move "Filename. Col Col 7, 19 19 silver badges 21 21 bronze badges. Care to explain the monstrosity? It's just substringing the date and time. Not too portable unfortunately Unfortunately the problem with using substrings is that it relies on a certain date format, and blows up when it's different.

True, I only use this solution on one machine so it's not too much of an issue.