Comments on: Command line options for XCOPY https://www.itfixed.com/2009/04/command-line-options-for-xcopy/ Complete Home and Small Office IT Services Sat, 12 Dec 2009 21:21:31 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Anonymous https://www.itfixed.com/2009/04/command-line-options-for-xcopy/#comment-91 Sat, 12 Dec 2009 21:21:31 +0000 http://www.itfixed.com/2009/04/command-line-options-for-xcopy/#comment-91 emm. attractive thread!

]]> By: Scott Mckeown https://www.itfixed.com/2009/04/command-line-options-for-xcopy/#comment-114 Fri, 10 Apr 2009 19:02:36 +0000 http://www.itfixed.com/2009/04/command-line-options-for-xcopy/#comment-114 See if this helps

FOR /F “TOKENS=1* DELIMS= ” %%A IN (’DATE/T’) DO SET CDATE=%%B
FOR /F “TOKENS=1,2 eol=/ DELIMS=/ ” %%A IN (’DATE/T’) DO SET mm=%%B
FOR /F “TOKENS=1,2 DELIMS=/ eol=/” %%A IN (’echo %CDATE%’) DO SET dd=%%B
FOR /F “TOKENS=2,3 DELIMS=/ ” %%A IN (’echo %CDATE%’) DO SET yyyy=%%B
SET date=%mm%%dd%%yyyy%

Then you can use the %date variable in your script.

Scott

]]> By: henry https://www.itfixed.com/2009/04/command-line-options-for-xcopy/#comment-115 Fri, 10 Apr 2009 16:39:43 +0000 http://www.itfixed.com/2009/04/command-line-options-for-xcopy/#comment-115 i figured out what i was doing wrong. my command line switch was /d: and should have been /d . then it does work the way i expected.
now i’m trying to figure out how to calculate the date parameter in a batch file so that i can run from windows xp task scheduler. anybody know how to do that ?

]]> By: Scott Mckeown https://www.itfixed.com/2009/04/command-line-options-for-xcopy/#comment-116 Fri, 10 Apr 2009 01:25:54 +0000 http://www.itfixed.com/2009/04/command-line-options-for-xcopy/#comment-116 Did you try to add the date after the /d: switch? Something like

xcopy /d:1-1-09 sourcefilename destfilename

I beleive the /d: needs a date to function properly.

]]> By: henry https://www.itfixed.com/2009/04/command-line-options-for-xcopy/#comment-117 Fri, 10 Apr 2009 00:33:50 +0000 http://www.itfixed.com/2009/04/command-line-options-for-xcopy/#comment-117 tried this item and the utility reports ‘invalid switch – /d:’

/D:m-d-y Copies files changed on or after the specified date. If no date is given, copies only those files whose source time is newer than the destination time.

i was looking for a way to pass the current date to the scheduled task in windows xp

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