Good luck!!

Thanks, I'll try.
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Good luck!!

Thanks, I'll try.
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I can't seem to find the rest of this thread... but if you are talking about Windows Batch, you could try this. I found it somewhere on the net and make good use of it.

For /f "tokens=2-4 delims=/ " %%a in ('date /t') do (set mydate=%%c-%%a-%%b)

Call it as:
%mydate%

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I can't seem to find the rest of this thread... but if you are talking about Windows Batch, you could try this. I found it somewhere on the net and make good use of it.

For /f "tokens=2-4 delims=/ " %%a in ('date /t') do (set mydate=%%c-%%a-%%b)

Call it as:
%mydate%

You are right, it was in another echo-but the problem still remains. I'm not
a programmer, and I have no idea how to use it. Thanks for this, but sorry, I don't know what to do with it.
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19 Sep 15 09:17, you wrote to KenDB3:

For /f "tokens=2-4 delims=/ " %%a in ('date /t') do (set
mydate=%%c-%%a-%%b)

Call it as:
%mydate%

You are right, it was in another echo-but the problem still remains. I'm not a programmer, and I have no idea how to use it. Thanks for this, but sorry, I don't know what to do with it.

you smiply place it near the top of your .bat file so that it is executed before you need the date value... then when you need the date value, you use %mydate% in that place...

eg: ren sbbs.log sbbs-%mydate%.log

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Re: Name a file today's date
By: mark lewis to Bill Gordon on Sat Sep 19 2015 11:37 am

you smiply place it near the top of your .bat file so that it is executed before you need the date value... then when you need the date value, you
use %mydate% in that place...

eg: ren sbbs.log sbbs-%mydate%.log

on my windows computers i do backups with a date environment variable.
i used to use setenv, but now i just go into the control panel and change my date form at from ##/##/## to ##-##-##
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you smiply place it near the top of your .bat file so that it is executed before you need the date value... then when you need the date value, you use %mydate% in that place...

eg: ren sbbs.log sbbs-%mydate%.log

Outstanding!!! Now, how do I make it into the format 'yymmdd' ? Everything I try to do to change the original statement screws it up.

Thanks
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you smiply place it near the top of your .bat file so that it is executed before you need the date value... then when you need the date value, you use %mydate% in that place...

eg: ren sbbs.log sbbs-%mydate%.log

Outstanding!!! Now, how do I make it into the format 'yymmdd' ? Everything I try to do to change the original statement screws it up.

Thanks

Hmmm... I'm totally guilty of using some code I can't possibly augment. However, my google-fu is strong, lol. Maybe check out this link:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19993537/windows-batch-how-to-append-the-cur rent-date-and-time-of-a-format-yyyymmdd-hhm

Stack Overflow has a lot of good solutions to problems like this.

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19 Sep 15 18:16, you wrote to me:

you smiply place it near the top of your .bat file so that it is
executed before you need the date value... then when you need the date
value, you use %mydate% in that place...

eg: ren sbbs.log sbbs-%mydate%.log

Outstanding!!! Now, how do I make it into the format 'yymmdd' ?
Everything I try to do to change the original statement screws it up.

it is year-month-day isn't it??

do not want the dashes? try this...

For /f "tokens=2-4 delims=/ " %%a in ('date /t') do (set mydate=%%c%%a%%b)

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do not want the dashes? try this...

For /f "tokens=2-4 delims=/ " %%a in ('date /t') do (set mydate=%%c%%a%%b)

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Re: Re: Name a file today's date
By: Bill Gordon to mark lewis on Sun Sep 20 2015 02:36 pm

do not want the dashes? try this...

For /f "tokens=2-4 delims=/ " %%a in ('date /t') do (set mydate=%%c%%a%%b)

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Thanks, Mark, I now have a batch file built to rename ALL my log files and store them in their respective directories.

that's what i do with synchronet logs. gets real messy
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do not want the dashes? try this...

For /f "tokens=2-4 delims=/ " %%a in ('date /t') do (set mydate=%%c%%a%%b)

)\/(ark

Thanks, Mark, I now have a batch file built to rename ALL my log files and store them in their respective directories.

Ah, that was easy, I thought you needed to change it to a 2 character year instead of 4 (15 vs 2015).

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Outstanding!!! Now, how do I make it into the format 'yymmdd' ?
Everything I try to do to change the original statement screws it up.

Here's my cod, it sets an environmental variable backupdate to YYMMDD:

SET backupdate=%date:~-4,4%%date:~-10,2%%date:~-7,2%


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For /f "tokens=2-4 delims=/ " %%a in ('date /t') do (set mydate=%%c%%a%%b)

If I can be a pest ONE LAST TIME, how do I it to display the time as well?

Last one, I promise.

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This is a batch file I use to do a full backup sbbs

@echo off
SET backupdate=%date:~-4,4%%date:~-10,2%%date:~-7,2%
SET target=G

echo Performing Backup for %backupdate%:

mkdir %target%:\Backups\%backupdate%
xcopy c:\sbbs\*.* %target%:\Backups\%backupdate%\ /s /e /c /y

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20 Sep 15 14:36, you wrote to me:

do not want the dashes? try this...

For /f "tokens=2-4 delims=/ " %%a in ('date /t') do (set
mydate=%%c%%a%%b)

Thanks, Mark, I now have a batch file built to rename ALL my log files and store them in their respective directories.

excellent... did/do you see the only difference between the original and this one?

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21 Sep 15 09:01, you wrote to me:

For /f "tokens=2-4 delims=/ " %%a in ('date /t') do (set
mydate=%%c%%a%%b)

If I can be a pest ONE LAST TIME, how do I it to display the time as
well?

hahaha... i was waiting for that :)

this is another one, very similar to the above... it gets stored in another %var%...

For /f "tokens=1-2 delims=/:" %%a in ('time /t') do (set mytime=%%a%%b)

use it as

echo %mytime%


if you prefer military format, use this instead...

For /f "tokens=1-2 delims=/:" %%a in ("%TIME%") do (set mytime=%%a%%b)

and use it the same way...


one should also note that the original date one is region based... in other words, if a region uses a different output order for the date, then the one posted will be wrong for their region... if one wants to work in a region independent way and then build their own output, then one should use a much different but very similar method which outputs in ISO format and then we can build our desired string from there...


for /F "usebackq tokens=1,2 delims==" %%i in (`wmic os get LocalDateTime /VALUE 2^>NUL`) do if '.%%i.'=='.LocalDateTime.' set ldt=%%j

set ldt=%ldt:~0,4%-%ldt:~4,2%-%ldt:~6,2% %ldt:~8,2%:%ldt:~10,2%:%ldt:~12,6%

echo Local date is [%ldt%]


the first line will be wordwrapped due to length... it grabs the date from the "wmic os" command and stores it in the "ldt" variable in ISO format... the second line uses substring processing to break the contents of the ldt variable
apart and store them back into the ldt variable when finished...

1. start at the 0th place and extract the next 4 characters
2. go to the 4th place and extract the next 2 characters
3. go to the 6th place and extract the next 2 characters
4. add a space
5. go to the 8th place and extract the next 2 characters
6. add a ':'
7. go to the 10th place and extract the next 2 characters
8. add a ':'
9. go to the 12th place and extract the next 6 characters

the third line demonstrates the output which looks like

Local date is [2015-09-21 11:15:53.048]


now that we have this, we can do pretty much anything we want with the time and
date... the only things that we might want to adjust are the characters grabbed
and or characters added to the strings... if we want the date and time in YYYYMMDD_hhmm format then we would alter the second line like so...

set ldt=%ldt:~0,4%-%ldt:~4,2%-%ldt:~6,2%_%ldt:~8,2%%ldt:~10,2%

note that i replaced the ' ' with '_' and chopped off the last section at the ':' that grabbed the seconds and hundredths of seconds... that should give us something like

20150921_1120

for 11:20AM or

20150921_1843

for 6:43PM in the ldt variable which we then use like

echo %ldt%

or

ren sbbs.log sbbs-%ldt%.log


BTW: i do actually use the above on another machine with no '_' between the time and date and i regularly send link test messages with the subject of the date and time and no message body to test how long a message takes to arrive and be responded to ;)

BTW2: these have all been taken from this site...

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/203090/how-to-get-current-datetime-on-windows-command-line-in-a-suitable-format-for-us

http://tinyurl.com/mzheefs

Last one, I promise.

:)

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Re: Re: Name a file today's date
By: Bill Gordon to Bill McGarrity on Mon Sep 21 2015 09:14 am

That would be a great backup, but when I ran it, it froze when it got to c:\sbbs\data\mail.shd.

Weird -- I run it as an exclusive event, and also kick it off outside of Synchronet and it works here. What OS?

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hahaha... i was waiting for that :)

nope, I promised: last one

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This is a batch file I use to do a full backup sbbs

@echo off
SET backupdate=%date:~-4,4%%date:~-10,2%%date:~-7,2%
SET target=G

echo Performing Backup for %backupdate%:

mkdir %target%:\Backups\%backupdate%
xcopy c:\sbbs\*.* %target%:\Backups\%backupdate%\ /s /e /c /y

That would be a great backup, but when I ran it, it froze when it got
to c:\sbbs\data\mail.shd.

It would NOT continue, and I waited about 10 minutes before I hit the CTRL-C.

I don't see where I use mail.shd anywhere? Why would you put that into a sub?


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Re: Re: Name a file today's date
By: Bill McGarrity to Bill Gordon on Mon Sep 21 2015 07:17 pm

Bill Gordon wrote to Bill McGarrity <=-

This is a batch file I use to do a full backup sbbs

@echo off
SET backupdate=%date:~-4,4%%date:~-10,2%%date:~-7,2%
SET target=G

echo Performing Backup for %backupdate%:

mkdir %target%:\Backups\%backupdate%
xcopy c:\sbbs\*.* %target%:\Backups\%backupdate%\ /s /e /c /y

That would be a great backup, but when I ran it, it froze when it got to c:\sbbs\data\mail.shd.

It would NOT continue, and I waited about 10 minutes before I hit the CTRL-C.

I don't see where I use mail.shd anywhere? Why would you put that into a sub?

"data/mail.shd" contains all the header data for all email in the Synchronet system.

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Re: Re: Name a file today's date
By: Digital Man to Bill McGarrity on Mon Sep 21 2015 05:34 pm

Bill Gordon wrote to Bill McGarrity <=-

This is a batch file I use to do a full backup sbbs

@echo off
SET backupdate=%date:~-4,4%%date:~-10,2%%date:~-7,2%
SET target=G

echo Performing Backup for %backupdate%:

mkdir %target%:\Backups\%backupdate%
xcopy c:\sbbs\*.* %target%:\Backups\%backupdate%\ /s /e /c /y

That would be a great backup, but when I ran it, it froze when it
got to c:\sbbs\data\mail.shd.

It would NOT continue, and I waited about 10 minutes before I hit
the CTRL-C.

I don't see where I use mail.shd anywhere? Why would you put that into
a sub?

"data/mail.shd" contains all the header data for all email in the Synchronet system.

You might want to try shutting down the various Synchronet applications that are running. I have my script doing this first:
<begin code snippet>

REM Shut down sbbsctrl.exe and scfg.exe
taskkill /IM scfg.exe /t /f
taskkill /IM sbbsctrl.exe /t /f

<end code snippet>

Then I actually stall purposely for a bit, run the backup, and then start applications back up.

<begin code snippet>

REM wait for a bit to make sure all is well
ECHO. Stalling with a Ping....
PING 1.1.1.1 -n 1 -w 10000 > NUL

REM copy sbbs to sbbsback incrementally and create or append to a log
ECHO. Copying Files Over....
xcopy "C:\sbbs\*.*" c:\sbbsback\sbbs\ /c /s /r /d /y /i > C:\sbbsback\xcopy.log ECHO. Copying is Done

REM Start sbbs back up and leave out scfg
ECHO. Launching Programs....
start "sbbsctrl Restart" /DC:\sbbs\exec\ "sbbsctrl.exe"
ECHO. SBBSCTRL is Back Up

<end code snippet>

I also use 7zip command line to create an archive. That is where I use the date format.

<begin code snippet>

REM get a date format in yyyyddmm
For /f "tokens=2-4 delims=/ " %a in ('date /t') do (set mydate=%c-%a-%b)

REM zip it up with 7zip and omit the log
ECHO. Turning backup files into 7zip archive....
START "7zip Archive" /wait 7za a -mx=9 -y c:\sbbsback\zips\sbbs_backup_%mydate%.7z c:\sbbsback\sbbs
ECHO. Archive Created!

<end code snippet>

I also stopped using XCOPY and started using ROBOCOPY. But there are some quirks with WinXP (which is what I run). Let me know if you would like my ROBOCOPY command info, more than happy to share :-)

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>

I don't see where I use mail.shd anywhere? Why would you put that into a sub?

I didn't. Evidently SBBS did for some reason. I've not given up on it yet, I gotta look it over from EVERY angle. Who knows, I might find a solution and never know exactly the solution. That's called SAL! (stupid-assed luck)

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Re: Re: Name a file today's date
By: KenDB3 to Bill Gordon on Mon Sep 21 2015 09:41 pm

REM wait for a bit to make sure all is well
ECHO. Stalling with a Ping....
PING 1.1.1.1 -n 1 -w 10000 > NUL

That's a great idea -- I always used one of those little sleep executables, but having something that's already in the OS is even better. Less dependencies.

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Re: Re: Name a file today's date
By: Bill McGarrity to Bill Gordon on Mon Sep 21 2015 07:17 pm

Bill Gordon wrote to Bill McGarrity <=-

This is a batch file I use to do a full backup sbbs

@echo off
SET backupdate=%date:~-4,4%%date:~-10,2%%date:~-7,2%
SET target=G

echo Performing Backup for %backupdate%:

mkdir %target%:\Backups\%backupdate%
xcopy c:\sbbs\*.* %target%:\Backups\%backupdate%\ /s /e /c /y

That would be a great backup, but when I ran it, it froze when it got to c:\sbbs\data\mail.shd.

It would NOT continue, and I waited about 10 minutes before I hit the CTRL-C.

I don't see where I use mail.shd anywhere? Why would you put that into a sub?

"data/mail.shd" contains all the header data for all email in the Synchronet system.

I understand that but he was asking for a way to date his log files and had nothing to do with mail.shd. If he wanted to backup the shd he should have mentioned something initially.


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>

I don't see where I use mail.shd anywhere? Why would you put that into a sub?

I didn't. Evidently SBBS did for some reason. I've not given up on it yet, I gotta look it over from EVERY angle. Who knows, I might find a solution and never know exactly the solution. That's called SAL! (stupid-assed luck)

Why don't you post the actual batch file you're using so we can see where mail.shd is entering into the equation.


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<begin code snippet>

REM wait for a bit to make sure all is well
ECHO. Stalling with a Ping....
PING 1.1.1.1 -n 1 -w 10000 > NUL

you don't have a "wait" "sleep" or "delay" command that you can

sleep 30

or such with? that would be much better than pinging a public address...

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Re: Re: Name a file today's date
By: Poindexter Fortran to KenDB3 on Tue Sep 22 2015 06:33 am

Re: Re: Name a file today's date
By: KenDB3 to Bill Gordon on Mon Sep 21 2015 09:41 pm

REM wait for a bit to make sure all is well
ECHO. Stalling with a Ping....
PING 1.1.1.1 -n 1 -w 10000 > NUL

That's a great idea -- I always used one of those little sleep executables, but having something that's already in the OS is even better. Less dependencies.

i think most oses have a sleep or a wait type program.
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Re: Re: Name a file today's date
By: Poindexter Fortran to KenDB3 on Tue Sep 22 2015 06:33 am

REM wait for a bit to make sure all is well
ECHO. Stalling with a Ping....
PING 1.1.1.1 -n 1 -w 10000 > NUL

That's a great idea -- I always used one of those little sleep executables, but having something that's already in the OS is even better. Less dependencies.

Thanks, but I can't take credit for it. I am not sure, but I think I got it from this site:
http://www.wikihow.com/Delay-a-Batch-File

I use the Ping trick because WinXP won't recognize TIMEOUT command.

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Re: Name a file today's date
By: mark lewis to KenDB3 on Tue Sep 22 2015 01:29 pm

<begin code snippet>

REM wait for a bit to make sure all is well
ECHO. Stalling with a Ping....
PING 1.1.1.1 -n 1 -w 10000 > NUL

you don't have a "wait" "sleep" or "delay" command that you can

sleep 30

or such with? that would be much better than pinging a public address...

That option totally exists, but it is OS dependent. So, I am using WinXP, and I cannot get the TIMEOUT command to work. I think it works in Windows Vista on up.
Check out:
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc754891.aspx

Which mentions it works in XP, but certainly not for me. I get this --> 'timeout' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

FWIW: whois 1.1.1.1

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inetnum: 1.1.1.0 - 1.1.1.255
netname: APNIC-LABS
descr: Research prefix for APNIC Labs
descr: APNIC
country: AU
admin-c: AR302-AP
tech-c: AR302-AP
mnt-by: APNIC-HM
mnt-routes: MAINT-AU-APNIC-GM85-AP
mnt-irt: IRT-APNICRANDNET-AU
status: ASSIGNED PORTABLE
changed: hm-changed@apnic.net 20140507
changed: hm-changed@apnic.net 20140512
source: APNIC

irt: IRT-APNICRANDNET-AU
address: PO Box 3646
address: South Brisbane, QLD 4101
address: Australia
e-mail: abuse@apnic.net
abuse-mailbox: abuse@apnic.net
admin-c: AR302-AP
tech-c: AR302-AP
auth: # Filtered
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role: APNIC RESEARCH
address: PO Box 3646
address: South Brisbane, QLD 4101
address: Australia
country: AU
phone: +61-7-3858-3188
fax-no: +61-7-3858-3199
e-mail: research@apnic.net
remarks: ++++++++++++++++++
remarks: + Address blocks listed with this contact
remarks: + are withheld from general use and are
remarks: + only routed briefly for passive testing.
remarks: +
remarks: + If you are receiving unwanted traffic
remarks: + it is almost certainly spoofed source
remarks: + or hijacked address usage.
remarks: +
remarks: + http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_address_spoofing
remarks: + http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional_internet_registry remarks: +
remarks: ++++++++++++++++++
nic-hdl: AR302-AP
tech-c: AH256-AP
admin-c: AH256-AP
mnt-by: MAINT-APNIC-AP
changed: hm-changed@apnic.net 20110822
source: APNIC

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I am not positive, but I more than likely grabbed this as an alternate method of stalling a batch file from here:
http://www.wikihow.com/Delay-a-Batch-File

It is a pretty good solution when the TIMEOUT option is not available. The ping stalls pretty well specifically because 1.1.1.1 is a real IP, but it is not (usually) on the net and routed (due to it being reserved for testing).

However, I do remember seeing some web site that suggested pinging your own loopback (127.0.0.1) instead, if that makes it a bit less sketchy for you.

~KenDB3

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Re: Name a file today's date
By: KenDB3 to mark lewis on Tue Sep 22 2015 11:34 pm

However, I do remember seeing some web site that suggested pinging your own loopback (127.0.0.1) instead, if that makes it a bit less sketchy for you.

Or you could ping your own gateway...

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