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Candace wrote:
> I am in the process of creating a scheduled task to run disk defrag
> afterhours. The command line I am using is "defrag c: -f -v filename.txt".
> How to I adjust this line so that the file name automatically consists of
> the phrase "dfrgLog" plus the current date, as in "dfrgLog031005"?
Hi
You can do it using e.g the batch date time functions from Ritchie
Lawrence batch library available at
http://www.commandline.co.uk/lib
I also suggest you use the ISO 8601 date format yyyymmdd or yyyy-mm-dd
so it is unambiguous and easily sortable in Explorer.
This bat file should do the job:
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@echo off
setlocal
call :GetDate year month day
:: using ISO 8601 date format yyyymmdd so it is unambiguous
:: and easily sortable in Explorer.
set currdate=%year%%month%%day%
defrag.exe c: -f -v dfrgLog%currdate%.txt
endlocal
goto :EOF
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:GetDate yy mm dd
::
:: By: Ritchie Lawrence, 2002-06-15. Version 1.0
::
:: Func: Loads local system date components into args 1 to 3. For NT4/2K/XP
::
:: Args: %1 var to receive year, 4 digits (by ref)
:: %2 var to receive month, 2 digits, 01 to 12 (by ref)
:: %3 Var to receive day of month, 2 digits, 01 to 31 (by ref)
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setlocal ENABLEEXTENSIONS
set t=2&if "%date%z" LSS "A" set t=1
for /f "skip=1 tokens=2-4 delims=(-)" %%a in ('echo/^|date') do (
for /f "tokens=%t%-4 delims=.-/ " %%d in ('date/t') do (
set %%a=%%d&set %%b=%%e&set %%c=%%f))
endlocal&set %1=%yy%&set %2=%mm%&set %3=%dd%&goto :EOF
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torgeir, Microsoft MVP Scripting and WMI, Porsgrunn Norway
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