Batch file to create a folder based on current date & time

[Ziondaman]

HI 
is there a way to make a batch that make a folder every day
and putt all the files in 
so like this

2020/12/10 2 files

2020/13/10 1 file

2020/14/10 5 files

2020/15/10 0 files

and del the olde folder if it has 0 files

i am not good on batch programming so i hope somebody can help me  

[JayBe]

im not sure about batch, but in bash you can easily do a
 

mkdir $date

the beginning of the script. Whilte the output from $date can be manipulated in many ways to get the date format you want.

Maybe try googleing for something like "$date in batch" etc.

[WereCatf]

7 minutes ago, JayBe said:

im not sure about batch, but in bash you can easily do a

mkdir $date

 

Nope, two mistakes: redirection of the output of a command would be $(date), but since the output contains space-characters, you'd also need quotes, ie. mkdir "$(date)"

[Ziondaman]

so like this

[JayBe]

2 minutes ago, WereCatf said:

Nope, two mistakes: redirection of the output of a command would be $(date), but since the output contains space-characters, you'd also need quotes, ie. mkdir "$(date)"

True, i forgot about that, sorry. Too early for me to have my full brain capacity

 

 

Just now, Ziondaman said:

so like this

Im not sure if mkdir exists in batch tho, but give it a try

[Ziondaman]

4 minutes ago, WereCatf said:

Nope, two mistakes: redirection of the output of a command would be $(date), but since the output contains space-characters, you'd also need quotes, ie. mkdir "$(date)"

 

14 minutes ago, JayBe said:

im not sure about batch, but in bash you can easily do a
 

mkdir $date

the beginning of the script. Whilte the output from $date can be manipulated in many ways to get the date format you want.

Maybe try googleing for something like "$date in batch" etc.

note 
if there is any other skrip that can do it better
or if there is a sofwere i am willing to chang

i have a log sever but it dumps the longs in random code names like 2kfjjjf or iiidaj
so i need a sorter by folder "days" aka that it makes folders daly and adds the files in there
and del folders that has no files in

 

[Ziondaman]

1 minute ago, JayBe said:

True, i forgot about that, sorry. Too early for me to have my full brain capacity

 

 

Im not sure if mkdir exists in batch tho, but give it a try

np

 

[JayBe]

maybe take a look at these links:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5485853/how-to-create-a-folder-with-name-as-current-date-in-batch-bat-files

https://www.mysysadmintips.com/windows/clients/270-create-folder-with-name-as-current-date-in-batch-bat-file

 

[Ziondaman]

Just now, JayBe said:

maybe take a look at these links:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5485853/how-to-create-a-folder-with-name-as-current-date-in-batch-bat-files

https://www.mysysadmintips.com/windows/clients/270-create-folder-with-name-as-current-date-in-batch-bat-file

 

thx i will look in to it

[WereCatf]

13 minutes ago, Ziondaman said:

so like this

No, you did not mention that you are using Windows and you wanna make a .BAT-script. For a Windows batch-file, you'd just use mkdir "%DATE%" or mkdir "%datestamp%" -- whichever variable you want to use. The quotes are still important there, though.

 

The "$(date)" - style is for Bash-scripts and similar Bourne-compatible shells, not the Windows command-interpreter.

[Ziondaman]

Just now, WereCatf said:

No, you did not mention that you are using Windows and you wanna make a .BAT-script. For a Windows batch-file, you'd just use mkdir "%DATE%" or mkdir "%datestamp%" -- whichever variable you want to use. The quotes are still important there, though.

 

The "$(date)" - style is for Bash-scripts and similar Bourne-compatible shells, not the Windows command-interpreter.

 

7 minutes ago, JayBe said:

maybe take a look at these links:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5485853/how-to-create-a-folder-with-name-as-current-date-in-batch-bat-files

https://www.mysysadmintips.com/windows/clients/270-create-folder-with-name-as-current-date-in-batch-bat-file

 

ok i fix it

 
but now how do i make it to move all the files in the new folder
and how do i make it send it so a folder 

the code
 

[WereCatf]

2 minutes ago, Ziondaman said:

but now how do i make it to move all the files in the new folder
and how do i make it send it so a folder

What files and from where?

[Ziondaman]

9 minutes ago, WereCatf said:

What files and from where?

vido pdf ext all typs
from a folder 

[WereCatf]

35 minutes ago, Ziondaman said:

vido pdf ext all typs
from a folder 

Since you're not saying what folder, I assume you just mean the folder where the batch-script itself is:

@echo off
REM Set current working-directory to where the bat-file is.
SET mypath=%~dp0
cd "%mypath:~0,-1%"

REM Create directory
for /f "skip=1" %%i in ('wmic os get localdatetime') do if not defined fulldate set fulldate=%%i
set year=%fulldate:~0,4%
set month=%fulldate:~4,2%
set day=%fulldate:~6,2%
set foldername=%year%.%month%.%day%
mkdir "%foldername%"

REM Move all files, except the batch-file itself
for %%i in (*) do if not "%%i" == "%~nx0" move "%%i" "%foldername%\%%i"

 

[Ziondaman]

40 minutes ago, WereCatf said:

Since you're not saying what folder, I assume you just mean the folder where the batch-script itself is:

@echo off
REM Set current working-directory to where the bat-file is.
SET mypath=%~dp0
cd "%mypath:~0,-1%"

REM Create directory
for /f "skip=1" %%i in ('wmic os get localdatetime') do if not defined fulldate set fulldate=%%i
set year=%fulldate:~0,4%
set month=%fulldate:~4,2%
set day=%fulldate:~6,2%
set foldername=%year%.%month%.%day%
mkdir "%foldername%"

REM Move all files, except the batch-file itself
for %%i in (*) do if not "%%i" == "%~nx0" move "%%i" "%foldername%\%%i"

 

o no now i get it E:\Dump

sorry thx

 

[Ziondaman]

2 hours ago, WereCatf said:

Since you're not saying what folder, I assume you just mean the folder where the batch-script itself is:

@echo off
REM Set current working-directory to where the bat-file is.
SET mypath=%~dp0
cd "%mypath:~0,-1%"

REM Create directory
for /f "skip=1" %%i in ('wmic os get localdatetime') do if not defined fulldate set fulldate=%%i
set year=%fulldate:~0,4%
set month=%fulldate:~4,2%
set day=%fulldate:~6,2%
set foldername=%year%.%month%.%day%
mkdir "%foldername%"

REM Move all files, except the batch-file itself
for %%i in (*) do if not "%%i" == "%~nx0" move "%%i" "%foldername%\%%i"

 

now can i set this up and make it run on Task Scheduler
so i fix the folder or do i have to do some more config to make it run??

[WereCatf]

2 minutes ago, Ziondaman said:

now can i set this up and make it run on Task Scheduler
so i fix the folder or do i have to do some more config to make it run

It depends. Do you want it to create those datestamped folders in E:\Dump, or do you want them somewhere else and move the files from E:\Dump there, instead?

[Ziondaman]

5 minutes ago, WereCatf said:

It depends. Do you want it to create those datestamped folders in E:\Dump, or do you want them somewhere else and move the files from E:\Dump there, instead?

yes i want it to do it in E:\Dump

[WereCatf]

1 minute ago, Ziondaman said:

yes i want it to do it in E:\Dump

Then it's just:

@echo off
E:
cd E:\Dump

REM Create directory
for /f "skip=1" %%i in ('wmic os get localdatetime') do if not defined fulldate set fulldate=%%i
set year=%fulldate:~0,4%
set month=%fulldate:~4,2%
set day=%fulldate:~6,2%
set foldername=%year%.%month%.%day%
mkdir "%foldername%"

REM Move all files, except the batch-file itself
for %%i in (*) do if not "%%i" == "%~nx0" move "%%i" "%foldername%\%%i"

 

[Ziondaman]

Just now, WereCatf said:

Then it's just:

@echo off
E:
cd E:\Dump

REM Create directory
for /f "skip=1" %%i in ('wmic os get localdatetime') do if not defined fulldate set fulldate=%%i
set year=%fulldate:~0,4%
set month=%fulldate:~4,2%
set day=%fulldate:~6,2%
set foldername=%year%.%month%.%day%
mkdir "%foldername%"

REM Move all files, except the batch-file itself
for %%i in (*) do if not "%%i" == "%~nx0" move "%%i" "%foldername%\%%i"

 

thx man you help me very much