Rename/Copy File with Date Appended.

Ok, been out of the Dos world too much. I still use Batch files a lot though.

Heres what I need, this should be simple.

I want to take a file.. rjcrash.out.sent and rename or copy to
rjcrash022404.sent

I want the filename to have the date appended as part of the name.

I use Windows 2000 and the copy command retains long file names I know.

Even if I just have to have the file name with 8 digits, the date will do.

Thanks for the help.
Rj

The information presented in the following link seems to be what you need.
Please note that I have not tried myself.
http://www.winnetmag.com/Article/Art...575/13575.html

Thanks, Looks good.
I'll give that a try.

I did say I can use just the date.. seems I cant. I also need the time. Its a P2P EDI type system, and Im trying to save by date and time the transactions that are coming, and us sending out.

Thanks again
Rj

Don't recall or know what a P2P EDI type is.
Can you elaborate. Thanks?

P2P is Point to Point, they send me a document to a fixed IP address (has to go through firewall, etc...) on a PC, I upload it to our AS-400 midrange.

EDI is Electronic Data Interchange, Invoices, Po's, etc..etc..

We send them an acknowledgement, or an invoice for orders.

I download with one filename.. I want to save what I download on the PC, so I want the date/time tagging the file.

Oh, OK Thanks

Robert, Thanks a ton..
That link you sent worked great. Got the job done.

On that link, in win2k, I used THIS one for the string...

for /f "tokens=1,2" %%u in ('date /t') do set d=%%v
for /f "tokens=1" %%u in ('time /t') do set t=%%u
if "%t:~1,1%"==":" set t=0%t%
set timestr=%d:~6,4%%d:~3,2%%d:~0,2%%t:~0,2%%t:~3,2%
echo %timestr%

With that, I was able to do an Xcopy myfile %timestr%.sent

Works.

Thanks again
This forum is a lifesaver
Rj