haven't touched batch files in a long while, but knowing there's some server admins on here I was wondering if you could tell me if its possible to:

check todays date
if its a monday, copy folder x to destination z:/monday
if its tuesday, copy folder x to detination z:/tuesday
etc...

Thanks in advance

PS: OS = Win2k server

A possible solution:

FOR /F "tokens=1" %i in ('DATE /T') do set today=%i

IF NOT "%today"=="Mon" GOTO next
copy x to y:\monday
GOTO the_end

:next
IF NOT "%today"=="Tue" GOTO next
copy x to y:\tuesday
GOTO the_end

..and so on.

Hi, thanks for that. I couldn't get your code to work so I had a look at the FOR command and made the following changes...

FOR /F "tokens=1" %%i in ('DATE /T') do set today=%%i

IF NOT "%today%"=="Mon" GOTO tuesday
copy "file.txt" monday
GOTO the_end

:tuesday
IF NOT "%today%"=="Tue" GOTO wednesday
copy "file.txt" tuesday
GOTO the_end

:wednesday

:the_end


thnaks mate,
-DV

is it possible to incorporate winzip into batch commands ?

I need to compress some files before moving them to a destination folder

PKZip has a command line interface.

[Edited by JackClark - 7/22/2003 2:42:23 PM]

cheers jack

DazV = paula_k ?

Forgot to change back after the weekend Daz ? ;)

B U S T E D !

its a fair cop, I masquerade as a woman by day

by night, a sexually deviant necrophiliac with a penchant for beastiality

...or am I just flogging a dead horse ?

lol :D

anyone know if its possible to use command lines to control a cd rewriter ?

eg.
xcopy to d: (where d: is the rewriter) ?

Oops, guess there must be some differences in the FOR command on NT4 and W2K, glad you worked it out.

Can't believe I missed the terminating % on the today environment variable as well.

Sheila ;)

http://rikwakefield.com/software/createcd.zip

CreateCD [options] <FILESPEC>[<FILESPEC>]...

options - one or more of the following:

-e[rase] - Erase disk before writing
-f[ullerase] - Erase disk and quit. This is 'full" erase that takes quite some time
-nologo - Do not display logo string
-r[ecorder]:<LETTER> - Use recorder <LETTER>
-s[peed]:<NUMBER> - Use recording speed <NUMBER>
-v[erbose] - Produce more output
-info - Print recorder/disk information and exit
-eject - Eject disk after writing
-l[abel]:<VOLUME label> - Set volume label. Default is today's date
-i[mage]:<FILESPEC> - Make disk bootable using image <FILESPEC>. <FILESPEC>should be an image of a bootable floppy

Example: CreateCD -r:e -i:bootflpW98.img C:\Data\*.*

Rik :)

cool