Batch look up Year and Month for folder - batch-file

Hello I have batch code which zips my folder and removes the original copy. I run this as a task scheduler every month. There is one thing I been having problems with. My code is base on this on this variable on the top of my batch code call "set FILETOZIP" ... Is there a way where I can use another variable to look up the current month and year on my machine ? [ Rest of my batch code ] works find and I do not need any help with it.
Current :
set FILETOZIP=D:\Farm\201411
[Rest of code ]
Expected Code :
set FIND_YEAR_MONTH=" some date formula "
set FILETOZIP=D:\Farm\"A way to set FIND_YEAR_MONTH here "
[Rest of code ]

set FILETOZIP=D:\Farm\20%date:~10,2%%date:~4,2%
Is your basic structure - you don't tell us your date format which can be set on a user-by-user basis.
Assuming your format is Fri 11-21-14 then this picks the 10th character (start counting at character 0) for 2, then the 4th for 2. If your date-format differs, then adjust to suit.
Another way is
for /f "tokens=1-4 delims=/-. " %%a in ("%date%") do set /a filetozip=20%%d*100+1%%b-100
set "filetozip=D:\Farm\%filetozip%"
Again, the formula here depends on your date-format. Using your date elements and the delims set shown, then a date like Fri 11-21-14 would assign Fri to %%a, 11 to %%b, 21 to %%c and 14 to %%d. The mathematical gymnastics prefix the month and make it 100+the actual month number, so 100 needs to be subtracted. This is because batch treats numbers starting 0 as octal, so 08 and 09 are not valid. These become 108 and 109 - conveniently decimal.

Time settings independent:
#Echo Off
Call :GetDate.Init
Rem :GetDate.Init should be called one time in the code before call to :Getdate
Call :GetDate
set YEAR_MONTH=FINANCE%year%%month%
set file_to_zip=D:\Farm\%YEAR_MONTH%
[Rest of code ]
Goto :EOF
:GetDate.Init
Set /A "jan=1,feb=2,mar=3,apr=4,may=5,jun=6,jul=7,aug=8,sep=9,oct=10,nov=11,dec=12"
Set /A "mon=1,tue=2,wed=3,thu=4,fri=5,sat=6,sun=7"
(
Echo .Set InfHeader=""
Echo .Set InfSectionOrder=""
Echo .Set InfFooter="%%2"
Echo .Set InfFooter1=""
Echo .Set InfFooter2=""
Echo .Set InfFooter3=""
Echo .Set InfFooter4=""
Echo .Set Cabinet="OFF"
Echo .Set Compress="OFF"
Echo .Set DoNotCopyFiles="ON"
Echo .Set RptFileName="NUL"
) >"%Temp%\~foo.ddf"
Goto :Eof
:GetDate
Set "tf=%Temp%\~%random%"
Makecab /D InfFileName="%tf%" /F "%Temp%\~foo.ddf" >NUL
For /F "usebackq tokens=1-7 delims=: " %%a In ("%tf%") Do (
Set /A "year=%%g,month=%%b,day=1%%c-100,weekday=%%a"
Set /A "hour=1%%d-100,minute=1%%e-100,second=1%%f-100")
Del "%tf%" >NUL 2>&1
Goto :Eof

A solution independent of locale settings:
for /f "tokens=2 delims==" %%I in ('wmic os get localdatetime /format:list') do set datetime=%%I
It will give you:
20141121175755.279000+060
( YYYYMMDDhhmmss.<fraction>+/-<timedifference to UTC> )
from here, it is easy:
set datetime=%datetime:~0,6%
gives you 201411
and finally to get you pathname:
set "FILETOZIP=D:\Farm\%datetime%"

Related

Batch File Time

How do I add the time to this batch file when I rename the file?
The results look like this but need time also: Daily Report_Wed 08222018.pdf
#echo off
Pushd c:\Temp
pdftk *.pdf cat output %fn%.pdf
ren %fn%.pdf %fn%.xxx
del *.pdf
ren %fn%.xxx "Daily Report".pdf
for /f "tokens=1-3 delims=/" %%a in ('echo %date%') do set today=%%a%%b%%c
for %%f in (*.pdf) do ren "%%f" "%%~nf_%today%%%~xf"
mkdir "Daily Reports for Review"
move *.pdf "Daily Reports for Review"
Here's something that could get you close to what you want (I modified your 1st for loop):
e:\Work\Dev\StackOverflow>echo Date: [%date%], Time: [%time%]
Date: [2018-08-22], Time: [22:51:36.23]
e:\Work\Dev\StackOverflow>for /f "tokens=1-6 delims=/-:., " %a in ('echo %date: =0%-%time: =0%') do (echo set now=%a%b%c%d%e%f)
e:\Work\Dev\StackOverflow>(echo set now=20180822225136 )
set now=20180822225136
Notes:
Since I am directly in cmd window, and you're in a batch file you have to double the percent sign (%) for parameters (%a -> %%a, %b -> %%b, ... like you already have in your snippet). For more details, check [SS64]: Double %% symbols why are they needed in a batch file?
As you probably noticed (most likely due to "Regional settings"), my date format differs than yours (that's why I added the hyphen (-) in the delims list; also the items ordering is reversed), so you might get slightly different behaviors on different computers (things will get even worse on non English locales, as #Stephan noticed), so it's not a reliable solution (I guess this is batch processing generic)
Here's an untested example for you which uses WMIC to retrieve non locale dependent date and time values:
#Echo Off
If Exist "C:\Temp\*.pdf" (CD /D "C:\Temp") Else Exit /B
Rem The values below can be modified according to your language or preferred day names
Set "WeekDays=Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday"
For /F %%A In ('WMIC Path Win32_LocalTime Get /Value^|FindStr "[0-9]$"') Do Set "%%A"
For /F "Tokens=1%DayOfWeek%" %%A In (". . . . . . . . . %WeekDays%") Do Set "DayName=%%A"
For %%A In (Day Hour Minute Month Second) Do Call Set "%%A=0%%%%A%%" & Call Set "%%A=%%%%A:~-2%%"
Rem Choose the output %FileName% you want from the following variables:
Rem %Year% e.g. 2018
Rem %Quarter% e.g. 3
Rem %Month% e.g. 08
Rem %WeekInMonth% e.g. 4
Rem %Day% e.g. 22
Rem %DayOfWeek% as an integer where Monday from %WeekDays% is 1 e.g. 3
Rem %DayName% as a string taken from %WeekDays% e.g. Wednesday
Rem %Hour% in 24 hr format e.g. 21
Rem %Minute% e.g. 57
Rem %Second% e.g. 53
Set "FileName=%DayName% %Month%%Day%%Year%%Hour%%Minute%%Second%"
Rem Choose the full or relative output directory name
Set "DirName=Daily Reports for Review"
If Not Exist "%DirName%\" MD "%DirName%"
PDFTK *.pdf cat output "%DirName%\%FileName%.pdf" && Del /Q *.pdf
You will need to include the full or relative path to PDFTK on the last line if it is not located in the current working directory, (C:\Temp), or in %PATH%. Other than that, you should only make modifications to values on lines beginning with Set.
Empty lines and those Remarked can be optionally removed once you've made your modifications.

Batch Script: Search thru multiple files for part of an IP address and log it

I have multiple TraceRT log files containing 30 hops. I'm only looking for similar IP (ex. 192.168.1) and would like to log it on one file with:
1) Successful: %IP% found in %Filename%
2) Fail: Specified IP not found in %Filename%
I'm trying to use:
rem************************************************************
:START
# ECHO OFF
rem US date
set YEAR=%DATE:~10,4%
set MONTH=%DATE:~4,2%
set DAY=%DATE:~7,2%
rem US hour
set HOUR=%TIME:~0,2%
set MIN=%TIME:~3,2%
set SEC=%TIME:~6,2%
set HUNDREDS=%TIME:~9,2%
set HOURMIN=%HOUR%%MIN%
rem Make sure that hour has two digits
IF %HOUR% GEQ 10 goto twoh
set HOUR1=%TIME:~1,1%
set TWOHOUR=0%HOUR1%
goto fulltid
:twoh
set TWOHOUR=%HOUR%
:fulltid
set FULLTIME=%TWOHOUR%'%MIN%'%SEC%'%HUNDREDS%
set FTIME=%TWOHOUR%:%MIN%:%SEC%
#echo off & setLocal EnableDELAYedeXpansion
findstr /m "192.168.1" *.txt > FILENAME
echo on
for /f "tokens=*" %%a in (*.txt ^| find "192.168.1") do (
IF %%a neq %%b (
echo Suscessful: %%a %FILENAME% >> Log%YEAR%%MONTH%%DAY%.txt
) ELSE (
echo Fail: Specified IP not found in %FILENAME% >> Log%YEAR%%MONTH%%DAY%.txt
)
)
goto START
rem************************************************************
You have specified an invalid pipe | find. You cannot pipe (a) text file(s) into a command.
Either provide the file(s) as argument(s) to find, or use redirection (this works for a single file only but not for multiple ones nor */? patterns though).
You are using for /f not correctly.
It looks as if you wanted to parse the output of find. To accomplish that, but you must enclose the command within single-quotes '. Type for /? and see the help text for more details.
The following line of code should work:
for /f "tokens=*" %%a in ('find "192.168.1" *.txt') do (
To get current date and time, I strongly recommend to read variables %DATE% and %TIME% once only and within a single line! Otherwise you might run into problems, especially concerning the fractional seconds, which might not be equal between consecutive expansions.
To ensure %HOUR% to have two digits, you simply need to use set HOUR=0%HOUR% then set HOUR=%HOUR:~-2%.
Since a one-digit %HOUR% is prefixed by a space here, you can have it even simpler (thanks for your comment, #Stephan!) by just replacing the space by a zero: set HOUR=%HOUR: =0%.

Concerning batch games, find and replace a string

I have made a character file in which my game pulls data and variables from. Looks like so:
playerName= Marche
playerRace= Elf
playerHP= 100
playerSPD= 200
playerATK= 120
playerDEF= 70
Final Fantasy reference anyone...? Anyway, when the character levels up, I need a batch script to find the string "playerHP= 100". playerHP is set as a variable within the script. Basically, it takes the current health, and multiplies it by 120%, increasing the number. How do I echo the result of that math to replace the current number?
For example if that didn't make any sense, I have 100 health. I level up, thus increasing my health stat by 120%, so now I have 120 health. I would want to find the string "playerHP= 100" and replace it with "playerHP= 120".
If it can be avoided I don't want to download any other commands (I've seen sed a few times). Thanks much
EDIT: Instead of searching for the string and replacing I took jeb's advice and just deleted the file and re-echoed all of the data. It ended up looking like this:
set /a LeveledUpPlayerHP=(%ppHP%* 12) / (10)
set /a LeveledUpPlayerSPD=(%ppSPD%* 12) / (10)
set /a LeveledUpPlayerATK=(%ppATK%* 12) / (10)
set /a LeveledUpPlayerDEF=(%ppDEF%* 12) / (10)
echo Updating stats...
del "C:\Users\%USERNAME%\Desktop\CMDRPG\player\playerData.dll
ping 1.1.1.1 -n 1 -w 500 > nul
echo playerName= %playerName%>playerData.dll
echo playerRace= %playerRace%>>playerData.dll
echo playerHP= %LeveledUpPlayerHP%>>playerData.dll
echo playerSPD= %LeveledUpPlayerSPD%>>playerData.dll
echo playerATK= %LeveledUpPlayerATK%>>playerData.dll
echo playerDEF= %LeveledUpPlayerDEF%>>playerData.dll
The playerName and playerRace are all loaded in prior to this section of the code. Ping is used just as a wait function to let the file delete before echoing new data. Seems to work okay. Thanks all
try this (output is in %inifile%.new):
#ECHO OFF &SETLOCAL ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION
SET "inifile=file"
FOR /f %%a IN ('^<"%inifile%" find /c /v ""') DO SET /a lines=%%a
< "%inifile%" (
FOR /l %%a IN (1,1,%lines%) DO (
SET "line="
SET /p "line="
IF NOT "!line:playerHP=!"=="!line!" (
FOR /f "tokens=2delims= " %%b IN ("!line!") DO SET /a HP=%%b*12/10
SET "line=playerHP= !HP!"
)
ECHO(!line!
))>"%inifile%.new"
Input/output:
>type file
playerName= Marche
playerRace= Elf
playerHP= 100
playerSPD= 200
playerATK= 120
playerDEF= 70
>test.bat
>type file.new
playerName= Marche
playerRace= Elf
playerHP= 120
playerSPD= 200
playerATK= 120
playerDEF= 70
Presumeably it does not matter what order the values appear in you file. If that is so, then the following will effectively "edit" your file.
It first uses FINDSTR to isolate the current playerHP value, and FOR /F to parse out the value from the string. SET /A increments the playerHP. Then a new file is created using FINDSTR to write all the current values except for playerHP, and then the new playerHP info is appended to the end.
#echo off
set "file=gameData.txt"
for /f "tokens=2 delims==" %%N in ('findstr /bl "playerHP=" "%file%"') do set /a "newHP=%%N*120/100"
>"%file%.mod" (
findstr /blv "playerHP=" "%file%"
echo playerHP=%newHP%
)
move /y "%file%.mod" "%file%" >nul
But why go to all that trouble. I should think you already have all your values in memory as environment variables. Simply make sure that all variables that are to be stored in a file start with a common unique prefix. In your example, they all start with "player", but you probably want something a little more generic - perhaps a symbol like #. So you could have #playerName, #playerRace, etc.
Simply update the values in memory as needed. When it comes time to save the current game state to a file, then all you need to do is
>"gameData.txt" set #
A brand new file will be created each time containing all the current values.
To load the values, you do exactly what jeb suggested:
for /f "usebackq delims=" %%A in ("gameData.txt") do set %%A
To save your data in a file, you could use a block like
(
echo playerName=%playerName%
echo playerRace=%playerRace%
echo playerHP=%playerHP%
) > player.ini
And to load it you could use
for /F "delims=" %%L in (player.ini) do set "%%L"

Changing time from 24 hour clock to 12 hour in batch code

I currently have the following code in a batch file Backup.bat on my desktop. it is used to back up an excel spreadsheet file each day and rename it by appending the current date and time. File.xlsx is copied and pasted to a new folder as File Sun-06-24-2012 23.21.46PM.xlsx
Currently the date and time is appended as Sun-06-24-2012 23.21.46PM.xlsx but i would like to have it append as Sun-06-24-2012 11.21.46PM.xlsx using the 12 hour clock rather than 24 hour clock format.
Below is the code i am currently using in Windows XP Professional. Would anyone know how to have the time appended in 12 hour clock format rather than 24 hour clock format as it is currently in the code below.
#For /F "tokens=1,2,3,4 delims=/ " %%A in ('Date /t') do #(
Set DayW=%%A
Set Day=%%B
Set Month=%%C
Set Year=%%D
Set All=%%A-%%B-%%C-%%D
)
#For /F "tokens=1,2,3 delims=:,. " %%A in ('echo %time%') do #(
Set Hour=%%A
Set Min=%%B
Set Sec=%%C
Set Allm=%%A.%%B.%%C
)
#For /F "tokens=3 delims=: " %%A in ('time /t ') do #(
Set AMPM=%%A
)
copy "C:\Temp\File.xlsx" "C:\Temp\DailyBackup\File %All% %Allm%%AMPM%.xlsx"
I agree with Joey's comment, I think you are better off with 24 hour format.
Also, your method for getting the date and time will break as soon as the code is transferred to another machine that uses a different date and/or time configuration.
But, here goes anyway...
You should get the entire time string from a single %TIME% expansion. Otherwise you run the risk of getting the hour:min:sec before midnight and the AMPM after midnight.
Put #ECHO OFF at the top, then you don't need to sprinkle # throughout your code.
#echo off
For /F "tokens=1,2,3,4 delims=/ " %%A in ('Date /t') do (
Set DayW=%%A
Set Day=%%B
Set Month=%%C
Set Year=%%D
Set All=%%A-%%B-%%C-%%D
)
For /F "tokens=1,2,3 delims=:,. " %%A in ('echo %time%') do (
set /a "Hour=100%%A%%100"
set Min=%%B
set Sec=%%C
)
if %Hour% geq 12 (
set AMPM=PM
set /a "Hour-=12"
) else set "AMPM=AM"
if %Hour% equ 0 set "Hour=12"
if %Hour% lss 10 set "Hour=0%Hour%"
set "Allm=%Hour%.%Min%.%Sec%%AMPM%"
echo on
copy "C:\Temp\File.xlsx" "C:\Temp\DailyBackup\File %All% %Allm%.xlsx"
Time /t is giving you the time in 24-hour format, presumably because that's the default for your computer's locale.
As time /t doesn't appear to offer any formatting options, probably the easiest thing to do is add an extra section to your batch file to convert the 24-hour clock to 12-hour.
Somewhere under Set Hour=%%A you just need to:
Subtract 12 from the hour if it's more than 12
Change '00' into '12'
For example:
If %Hour% gtr 12 (
Set /a Hour=%Hour%-12
)
If %Hour% == 00 (
Set Hour=12
)
The /a switch on Set tells it that the value to the right of the equals sign is a numerical expression to be evaluated.
This will leave you with no leading zero on the hour if it comes out from 1 to 9. You could get around this with another if statement to add a leading zero back in, or there might be a more elegant approach!

only do if day... batch file

hello i got a batch file, something like this:
if %day%==monday, tuesday, wednesday, thursday, friday (
goto yes
) else (
goto no
)
Now i know the first line won't work.
What i actually want to happen:
It automatticly checks which day it is. If it is Monday to Friday, it has to go to 'yes', otherwise (saturday/sunday) to 'no'.
How to do this?
Here is an example bat file that will do this sort of thing I am sure you can think of other ways to use this sample code. For instance anytime you need an "in" list. The tricky bit is the %date:~0,3% this says expand the %date% environment variable and starting at position 0 the beginning of the string return the next 3 characters. You can learn more about this from the "set /?" command.
example: IsWeekDay.bat
#echo off
setlocal
for %%i in (Mon,Tue,Wed,Thu,Fri) do (
if "%date:~0,3%"=="%%i" goto YES
)
:NO
echo No
goto EOF
:YES
echo Yes
:EOF
endlocal
I ran across this online. Tested, and it works. Returns the day as an integer, which you can still work with.
#For /F "tokens=2,3,4 delims=/ " %%A in ('Date /t') do #(
Set Month=%%A
Set Day=%%B
Set Year=%%C
)
#echo DAY = %Day%
#echo Month = %Month%
#echo Year = %Year%
As Jay has mentioned, using date /t will only work on locales where this command outputs the day of week along with the date, and won't work on other locales (e.g. Russian). If you don't mind mixing your batch files with some VBScript, here's a solution that should work on all locales.
The trick is this tiny VBScript script that outputs the day of the week as a number (1 = Sunday, 2 = Monday, ... 7 = Saturday):
WScript.Echo DatePart("w", Date)
You can run this script from your batch file, read its output and apply your logic:
for /f %%d in ('cscript dayofweek.vbs //nologo') do (
if %%d==7 goto no :: Saturday
if %%d==1 goto no :: Sunday
)
goto yes
IF %day% == monday GOTO YES
IF %day% == tuesday GOTO YES
IF %day% == wednesday GOTO YES
IF %day% == thursday GOTO YES
IF %day% == friday GOTO YES
GOTO NO
I don't have the batch fu to answer the question as asked, but, assuming this is a Windows batch file, consider executing the script using the task scheduler, which will let you set the kind of schedule you're asking for.
Here is a batch file that extracts day-of-week, day, month and year in an almost locale-neutral way.
The only locale specific thing is the spelling of the day-of-week, the rest is locale neutral.
So in English, it will return Thu for Thursday, but in Dutch that will be do (for donderdag).
:: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/203090/how-to-get-current-datetime-on-windows-command-line-in-a-suitable-format-for-usi
:: Works on any NT/2k machine independent of regional date settings
::
:: 20110103 - adapted by jeroen#pluimers.com for Dutch locale
:: 20110303 - adapted by jeroen#pluimers.com for day-of-week
:: Dutch will get jj as year from echo:^|date, so the '%%c' trick does not work as it will fill 'jj', but we want 'yy'
:: luckily, all countries seem to have year at the end: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calendar_date
:: set '%%c'=%%k
:: set 'yy'=%%k
::
:: Also, in Dutch, there is a difference between %date% and date/t: the former will not include
:: the day-of-the-week, but the latter will.
:: That means the if "%date%A" LSS "A" trick does not work with %date%, we need a loop
:: to check if the day-of-the-week needs us to take tokens 2-4 in stead of 1-3:
:: if "%date%A" LSS "A" (set toks=1-3) else (set toks=2-4)
:: for /f "tokens=1" %%t in ('date/t') do (...)
::
:: Another difference between Dutch and English is that the Dutch date/t will prepend the day of the week in a lower case 2-letter form.
:: So the LSS "A" trick needs to be replaced with an LSS "a" trick
:: if "%date%A" LSS "A" (set toks=1-3) else (set toks=2-4)
:: if "%%ta" LSS "a" (set toks=1-3) else (set toks=2-4)
::
:: In addition, date will display the current date before the input prompt using dashes
:: in Dutch, but using slashes in English, so there will be two occurances of the outer loop in Dutch
:: and one occurence in English.
:: This skips the first iteration:
:: if "%%a" GEQ "A"
::
:: echo:^|date
:: Huidige datum: ma 03-01-2011
:: Voer de nieuwe datum in: (dd-mm-jj)
:: The current date is: Mon 01/03/2011
:: Enter the new date: (mm-dd-yy)
::
:: date/t
:: ma 03-01-2011
:: Mon 01/03/2011
::
:: The assumption in this batch-file is that echo:^|date will return the date format
:: using either mm and dd or dd and mm in the first two valid tokens on the second line, and the year as the last token.
::
:: The outer loop will get the right tokens, the inner loop assigns the variables depending on the tokens.
:: That will resolve the order of the tokens.
::
#ECHO off
set v_day_of_week=
set v_day=
set v_month=
set v_year=
SETLOCAL ENABLEEXTENSIONS
for /f "tokens=1" %%t in ('date/t') do (
set v_day_of_week=%%t
if "%%ta" LSS "a" (set toks=1-3) else (set toks=2-4)
)
::DEBUG echo toks=%toks%
for /f "tokens=2-4 delims=(-)" %%a in ('echo:^|date') do (
::DEBUG echo first token=%%a
if "%%a" GEQ "A" (
for /f "tokens=%toks% delims=.-/ " %%i in ('date/t') do (
set '%%a'=%%i
set '%%b'=%%j
set 'yy'=%%k
)
)
)
if %'yy'% LSS 100 set 'yy'=20%'yy'%
set Today=%'yy'%-%'mm'%-%'dd'%
ENDLOCAL & SET day_of_week=%v_day_of_week% & SET v_year=%'yy'%& SET v_month=%'mm'%& SET v_day=%'dd'%
ECHO Today is Year: [%V_Year%] Month: [%V_Month%] Day: [%V_Day%]
set datestring=%V_Year%%V_Month%%V_Day%
echo %datestring%
echo day of week=%day_of_week%
:EOF
Have fun with it!
--jeroen
From this answer, we have
wmic path win32_localtime get dayofweek
Expanding on this based on suggestions in this thread, we can set a dayofweek variable as follows:
#echo off
REM Unset dayofweek in case set in a previous execution of this batch file
set dayofweek=
REM Get dayofweek into a variable. Locale-specific: 0 is either Sunday or Monday.
for /F "skip=1 tokens=*" %%a in ('wmic path win32_localtime get dayofweek') do if not defined dayofweek set dayofweek=%%a
echo %dayofweek%
Note that 0 can be Sunday or Monday depending your locale.

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