Creating a file name as a timestamp in a batch job
batch-file, cmd, timestamp, windows
Solution
CP source.log %DATE:~-4%-%DATE:~4,2%-%DATE:~7,2%.log
But it's locale dependent. I'm not sure if `%DATE%` is localized, or depends on the format specified for the short date in Windows.
Here is a locale-independent way to extract the current date from this answer, but it depends on `WMIC` and `FOR /F`:
FOR /F %%A IN ('WMIC OS GET LocalDateTime ^| FINDSTR \.') DO @SET B=%%A
CP source.log %B:~0,4%-%B:~4,2%-%B:~6,2%.log
Problem
We have a batch job that runs every day and copies a file to a pickup folder. I want to also take a copy of that file and drop it into an archive folder with the filename ``` yyyy-MM-dd.log ``` What's the easiest way to do this in a Windows batch job? I'm basically looking for an equivalent of this Unix command: ``` cp source.log `date +%F`.log ```