Windows 7 Need to Convert Windows XP Batch File to Windows 7

[Grayson Lee]

Hello:

This is my first time posting here. Thanks in advance for any assistance.

I have a batch file that worked faithfully in Windows XP. I wish to update the code to work in Windows 7 Ultimate (64-bit).

The code creates a folder with a date in its name. the code is as follows:

@echo off
cls
:: Create environment variables with today's date values.
setlocal
for /f "tokens=1-4 delims=/ " %%i in ('date /t') do (
set Day=%%i
set MM=%%j
set DD=%%k
set YYYY=%%l
)
:: Create backup folder with today's date and move disk image to backup folder.
md D:\Backup\-- F-BU

In Windows XP, a folder with path D:\Backup\2010-02-09 F-BU would be created.

However, when I run the code in Windows 7, I get a folder with path and name as follows: D:\Backup\-- F-BU

If anyone could please help me out, it would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Grayson

 

[sayyedj]

I think your script had something wrong. You can amend the script as below . There are two methods.

You can use this way ----
@echo off
cls
:: Create environment variables with today's date values.
setlocal
for /f "tokens=1-4 delims=/ " %%i in ('date /t') do (
set DD=%%i
set MM=%%j
set YYYY=%%k
)
:: Create backup folder with today's date and move disk image to backup folder.
md D:\Backup\%YYYY%-%MM%-%DD%-F-BU
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Or

for /f "tokens=1-4 delims=/ " %%i in ('date /t') do ( md D:\Backup\%%i-%%j-%%k-F-BU )