Need a CMD guru

agnes · 13 Jan 2011 at 14:56

Trying to get a simple .bat file to put the date in the title of a text doc it creates when it runs a ping bat...

So, for example I need the .bat to run test.bat (which has a huge list of ping -n 3 commands to a bunch of IP. the bat file I am trying to make, I want it to create a text file with the title for the name of the txt file.

Also, to create a new file each time the bat is run.

Thanks, ags.

G-MAN2004 · 13 Jan 2011 at 14:57

Mind = blown.

sanaxe1 · 13 Jan 2011 at 14:58

G-MAN2004 said:
Mind = blown.

Doing some keyword analysis.... " Test" , "Run" and "Bat" . I think hes talking about cricket.

Burnsy2023 · 13 Jan 2011 at 14:58

The variable %CURRDATE% will do exactly what it says on the tin.

agnes · 13 Jan 2011 at 15:04

Burnsy2023 said:
The variable %CURRDATE% will do exactly what it says on the tin.

Can you elaborate please?

Thanks.

Burnsy2023 · 13 Jan 2011 at 15:18

agnes said:
Can you elaborate please?

Thanks.

What exactly do you want to know?

SimonCHere · 13 Jan 2011 at 15:41

Isn't it %date% ?

Code:

@echo off
echo %date%
echo %date:~-4,4%%date:~-7,2%%date:~0,2%filename.whatever

Hilly · 13 Jan 2011 at 16:09

Yea %date% is the one you want.

I have one at work which I wrote not so long ago; if I remember I'll copy it in here tomorrow if I get chance.

SimonCHere · 13 Jan 2011 at 16:51

easy way is to just output the second batch file to the filename you want

test.bat

Code:

@echo off

test1.bat > %date:~6,4%%date:~3,2%%date:~0,2%test.txt

test1.bat

Code:

ping 127.0.0.1 -n 100

As to different file names per run, run it once a day?

agnes · 13 Jan 2011 at 17:07

Got it working now guys...

Setup a scheduled task on one of the servers to run a .bat which had the following in:

v:
cd 03 Engineering Team
cd server ping logs

"reading server ping.bat" > %date:~-4,4%-%date:~-7,2%-%date:~0,2%__%time:~0,2%.%time:~3,2%.%time:~6,2%.txt

Cheers for the help guys

ags