Automatically generated title for a TXT file for the ">" command - batch-file

I'm trying to write a short batch file to monitor the data traffic hourly and write it in TXT files. My problem is that I want to give the TXT files the date and time of their creation as their filename.
I already tried to use the %date% and %time% commands, the "date /t" and "time /t" commands or to generate a file beforehand and access it afterwards, but I'm simply not well-versed enough in batch programming to access this file.
netstat -e > C:\Users\User1\Documents\%date%.%time%.txt
exit
There should be a file with the name of e.g. "20.02.2016 , 12:06:12.txt" , but I'm either getting a &date file or an error in cmd: "The syntax for filename, directory name, or volume label is incorrect.".

For /f "tokens=2-4 delims=/ " %%a in ('date /t') do (set filedate=%%c%%a%%b)
For /f "tokens=1-2 delims=/:" %%a in ('time /t') do (set filetime=%%a%%b)
netstat -e > C:\Users\User1\Documents\%filedate=%.%filetime%.txt exit
The first for loop does date /t then is set "/" as a delimiter and reassembles the date without a delimiter.
The second for loop does time /t then using ":" as a delimiter and reassembles the time without a delimiter.
Then we do your netstat command, placing our variables into the filename.
This will not work for all locales, but the general idea is the same. If you live a locale where this solution does not work, then just adapt the code to your own needs. This works for me on my own system, in North America.

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Built in commands fail when used in for loop

I have a portion of a script that is intended to remove the ":" out of the time and "/" out of the date as returned by time /t and date /t commands. If I execute the command in a command prompt (cmd.exe), the expected values are returned:
C:\Windows\system32>time /t
02:49 PM
C:\Windows\system32>date /t
Tue 07/03/2018
If I place the same commands at the beginning of my batch script, I get the results I expect. However, if I place the same command within a for statement to parse out the ":" and "/". I receive the following messages:
'date /t' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
'time /t' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
Running the for command outside of the batch file works fine. I have recreated the batchfile from scratch to be sure there were no random odd characters present.
Here is the script itself:
time /t
date /t
for /F "Tokens=2,3,4 delims=/ " %%a in ('date /t') Do Set _cdate=%%c%%a%%b
for /F "Tokens=1,2,3 delims=: " %%a in ('time /t') Do Set _ctime=%%a%%b%%c
pause
This same script works fine on another server as well as my desktop. I am at a loss as to what makes this new server different. (Aside from one is 32bit) The COMSPEC is correct. (C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe) These commands are part of a larger script to provide file name prefix for logging.
You can try this batch script using WMIC to get Date and Time not depending for locale/user settings :
#echo off
Title Get Date and Time using WMIC
Call :Get_Date_Time
echo Date : %Year%-%Month%-%day%
echo Time : %Hour%:%Min%:%Sec%
Pause>nul & Exit
::********************************************************************************************
:Get_Date_Time
for /f "skip=1" %%x in ('wmic os get localdatetime') do if not defined MyDate set "MyDate=%%x"
set "Year=%MyDate:~0,4%"
set "Month=%MyDate:~4,2%"
set "Day=%MyDate:~6,2%"
set "Hour=%MyDate:~8,2%"
set "Min=%MyDate:~10,2%"
set "Sec=%MyDate:~12,2%
exit /b
::********************************************************************************************

Batch commands for rds

I have a project for my Radio Station where I copy the text within a .wsx file of what is on air and parse it to a Audio Processor in my private network for RDS Display using a wget command like
set /p TEXTO= 0<R:\40.wsx
wget -q "http://x.x.x.x:7380/parameter/fm/rds/rds_rt=%TEXTO%" -O NUL
It works great but it won't filter if it's music or promotions.
My challenge is to be able to filter and only parse music names.
For the process I marked the Files that i don't want to show up like commercial, or promotions to start with a "#-" without the quotes.
So the text will show like #-Promo1
My Code:
for /F "delims=" %%a in ('FINDSTR "\<#-.*" C:\RDS\PRUEBAS\txt1.wsx') do set
"VAR=%%a"
echo %VAR%
if "%VAR%" == "true" (
set /p VAR=0<C:\FILEPATH\LOS40.wsx & wget -q
"http://x.x.x.x:7380/parameter/fm/rds/rds_rt=%VAR%" -O NUL
) else (
set /p TEXTO=0<C:\FILEPATH\ENVIVO.wsx & wget -q
"http://x.x.x.x:7380/parameter/fm/rds/rds_rt=%TEXTO%" -O NUL
)
I can't seem to find a correct way to filter it.
pls Heelpp..
for /F "delims=" %%a in ('FINDSTR "\<#-.*" C:\RDS\PRUEBAS\txt1.wsx') do set
should be
for /F "delims=" %%a in ('FINDSTR /b "#-" C:\RDS\PRUEBAS\txt1.wsx') do set
to find those lines in the .wsx file that do /b begin with "#-"
If you want to find those lines that do not begin with "#-" then add /v to the /b.
The result will be a line from the file which does [not] begin with "#-" which will be placed in %%a.
If you simply assign %%a to a variable as you are doing, that variable will contain after the for the last value that was assigned to it.
If you want to execute your wget on each name, then use
for /F "delims=" %%a in ('FINDSTR /B "#-" C:\RDS\PRUEBAS\txt1.wsx') do (
echo %%a
)
and between the parentheses you can execute commands using %%a as a filename.
Quite what you propose to do is obscure. I've no idea what the set/p from an unexplained file is meant to do, but be aware that any code between parentheses is subject to the delayedexpansion trap - please explain what processing you intend to apply to the filenames that do[not] match a leading #-.
You should read SO items on delayed expansion (it's documented with and without the space) to understand the problems with and solutions to processing values that are altered within a loop.
First of all thanks for your help.. I don't have experience in coding.
Let me explain a little bit more..
As I said before its a radio station which will provide text to the Car o home stereos using the RDS Protocol which allow me to send text like song name, title, etc.
Im My case the Audio Processor that let me send the text will receive the info as a URL where I add at the end the text I want to send.
For Example:
http://x.x.x.x:7380/parameter/fm/rds/rds_rt=%TEXTO%
%TEXTO% will be the text Im sending.
C:\RDS\PRUEBAS\txt1.wsx Contains the text of what it being played at the moment and which is being read to see if the #- for the script to avoid sending those titles.
I have a Pc running a Directory Monitor Program that will monitor events on file C:\RDS\PRUEBAS\txt1.wsx and that as soon as being modified, it will execute the batch file CHECKRDS.cmd.
After testing I decided to run a code in CHECKRDS.cmd like:
for /F "delims=" %%a in ('FINDSTR /v "#-" R:\40PPALES.wsx') do (
START "" RDS.bat
)
EXIT
RDS.bat contains code and it works fine:
set /p TEXTO= 0<C:\RDS\PRUEBAS\txt1.wsx
wget -q "http://x.x.x.x:7380/parameter/fm/rds/rds_rt=%TEXTO%" -O NUL
EXIT
As far as the set /p I test it from What does /p mean in set /p?
AS I said before Im new at coding and I just googled everything and started to assable the pieces of the puzzle.
Pls, If you think I should be doing these process diferently, pls let me know..
And sorry for my bad english..
regards

Extra space between the dot of extension and the file name

I use the following code in Windows batch to generate file's names suffixed with the date and time.:
For /f "tokens=2-4 delims=/ " %%a in ('date /t') do (set mydate=%%c-%%a-%%b)
For /f "tokens=1-3 delims=/:/ " %%a in ('time /t') do (set mytime=%%a-%%b-%%c)
set mytime=%mytime: =%
When I try to generate a file name like: ECHO DATABASE_2014-05-01_04-38-PM every thing works fine.
However, when I try to add kind of extension to the file name such as .sql:
ECHO DATABASE_%mydate%_%mytime%.sql
I have got output like this: DATABASE_2014-05-01_04-31-PM .sql in-which an extra blank space is found between .sql and PM in the last of the file name.
How could I fix this issue to make the extension directly attached to the file name?
set "mytime=%mytime: =%"
You have an aditional space at the end of the line. Quoting the assignment of the variable prevents this problem

This Supybot for windows batch install script needs to create another batch file

This Supybot for windows batch install script needs to create another batch file...
The Problem:
(1) I have a directory that has a file that ends with .conf
(2) There is only one file in this directory that ends with .conf
(3) But I don't know what this file starts with.. all I know is ????????.conf
(4) How do I set the filename.conf and remove the .conf part of the file name?
(5) As it is just the beginning of the filename that I need.
Example:
C:\runbot>find "supybot.ident: " | type *.conf > temp.txt
robotbot.conf
Outputs : robotbot.conf
The quest, is how do I set a variable=robotbot
=========================================================================
The Input was this file named "RootCode.conf" among many others
within the directory searched:
RootCode.conf
The Solution is:
FOR /F "tokens=1,2 delims=." %%a in ('FINDSTR /M "supybot.ident:" *.conf') DO SET USER=%%a&set dontneed=%%b
echo %USER%
pause
The Output is:
C:\runbot>FOR /F "tokens=1,2 delims=." %a in ('FINDSTR /M "supybot.ident:" *.con
f') DO SET USER=%a & set dontneed=%b
C:\runbot>SET USER=RootCode & set dontneed=conf
C:\runbot>echo RootCode
RootCode
C:\runbot>pause
Press any key to continue . . .
Winner... Special thanks Everyone
Your example of piping the output to typecommand is either wrong or useless. So I am assuming you mistyped and the real line was piping the other way around, and thus I am assuming that you are trying to find the filename of the file that contains the string "supybot.ident: ". In that case I would suggest to use findstr command instead.
FOR /F "tokens=*" %%a in ('FINDSTR /M "supybot.ident:" *.conf') DO SET USER=%%a
See HELP FINDSTR, HELP SET and HELP FOR for more information.
It's a bit unclear (to me, at least) what exactly you ask here. But if you need the output of a command, then use for /f:
for /f "delims=" %%x in ('some command ^| line') do set somevar=%%x
Note that you need to escape shell metacharacters in the command line (as they need to survive one parsing pass). Also note that you cannot set a variable to contain more than one line of text.

Create bat or script file to delete files

I would like to know how to create a bat file which on its first run would store the system date and on subsequent run delete a particular file 30 days later.I think if a bat file can be created that would store system date on its first run and the second bat files reads the first file for the date would be better.But how?
As #devio commented, PowerShell is definitely more fully featured: PowerShell Quick Reference
If it has to be a Batch file, this reference explains most commands.
I love powershell, and it is certainly more powerful than batch files, but for this it shouldnt really matter what you use, so if you're comfortable with your batch files you should be able to stick with them.
The only way you'll be able to later recover that date is to store it somewhere (or have your task running the whole time which is unrealistic - think reboots among other things)
You could write the deletion date to the registry or a text file or somewhere else that is 'known', but then you need to have something else running to check 'if its time to act'.
I'd be inclined to just create a scheduled task for the delete during the original script so that I wouldn't have to check up on it. You could even have the delete script you've scheduled clean up the task when it's done.
You could use something like a windowscripting host vb script or js script file. Also scripting languages such as php, python or perl would allow you to do something like this easily and possibly give you much greater flexibility than a shell script.
It's going to take a while to answer this one, but here's the first thing to suggest.
When you want to have a single .BAT (or .CMD) which does something and also does something later based on the first something, one can use the "flag parameter" technique. For example, in a script which accepts a wildcarded list of files to manipulate one could do as follows:
::foo.cmd
#echo off
if %1#==# goto fail
set f=%1
if %1==! goto inner
for %%x in (%f%) do cmd /c %0 ! %%x
goto done
:inner
set f=%2
echo do something with %f%
goto done
:fail
echo %0 {wildcard}
:done
The script is actually written such that it can be called anything, and it will call itself (using %0).
Now how to do date arithmetic is going to take some time to figure out. I hope that much at least gets you started in the right direction.
my setup after after completion of installation would run a bat file(once) that should get the system date(install date) and store in a text file.the main program would be called by another batch file that would read the text file every time for the date assisting it to delete particular files after "N" number of days referencing the install date in the text file.
HI MARK BRACKETT,
when I run batch1 the date is MM\DD\YYYY.But when I run batch2 the startdate is DD and the startmonth is also DD.The final equation is if rundate==nowdate execute command,it should be rundate=>nowdate,cause if pc not switched on rundate.secondly months with 31days the rundate would 31st next month
VBScript, PowerShell, or C# (I use CS-Script to run my C# scripts) would be much cleaner - but sometimes I enjoy a little batch file challenge.
So - this is for 1 month from the current date and time, but it gives you the idea. To actually figure 30 days, I suspect you'd need about 50 lines of IF statements. Or, a single external EXE to calculate it for you.
I think there's a cleaner way to use SET itself to split out the date parts, which would cut this down by about 3 lines - but I don't recall the syntax ATM.
Batch1
ECHO %DATE% > start.txt
Batch2
: Get start date
FOR /F "tokens=1* delims= " %%i IN (start.txt) DO set startDate=%%j
FOR /F "tokens=1,2 eol=/ delims=/ " %%i IN ('echo %startDate%') DO set startMonth=%%i
FOR /F "tokens=1,2 delims=/ eol=/" %%i IN ('echo %startDate%') DO set startDay=%%j
FOR /F "tokens=2,3 delims=/ " %%i IN ('echo %startDate%') DO set startYear=%%j
: Get run month and day as YYYY-MM-DD
SET /A runMonth=%startMonth% + 1
IF %runMonth% LEQ 10 SET runMonth=0%runMonth%
SET runDay=%startDay%
SET runYear=%startYear%
SET runDate=%runYear%-%runMonth%-%runDay%
: Get current month and day as YYYY-MM-DD
FOR /F "tokens=1* delims= " %%i IN ('echo %DATE%') DO set nowDate=%%j
FOR /F "tokens=1,2 eol=/ delims=/ " %%i IN ('echo %nowDate%') DO set nowMonth=%%i
FOR /F "tokens=1,2 delims=/ eol=/" %%i IN ('echo %nowDate%') DO set nowDay=%%j
FOR /F "tokens=2,3 delims=/ " %%i IN ('echo %nowDate%') DO set nowYear=%%j
SET nowDate=%nowYear%-%nowMonth%-%nowDay%
: Compare
IF %nowDate% GEQ %runDate% ECHO Delete!
Note that this doesn't handle year changes appropriately (it'll delete on the year change).

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