Batch file to copy text-file and include date in name 1

[StuartJones]

I need to write a batch file which will copy a text-file on a daily basis.

It will then rename the copy to include the date on which this action was carried out.

Could someone tell me the commands for this, please?

Thanks in advance, Stuart

 

[Jocsta]

Slap this in a batch file should do the trick. Call it passing in 2 parameters.
1) The path/name of the source file.
2) The path/name of the destination file. It will then append the date in dd-mm-yyyy format

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@echo off
copy %1 %2
FOR /f "tokens=2-4 delims=/ " %%a in ('DATE/T') do SET date=%%a-%%b-%%c
rename %2 "%2 %date%"
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[Jocsta]

oops - that should be (note it removes any file extensions) :-
rename %2 &quot;%~n2 %date%%&quot;

If you want to keep the file extension of the original filename used as parameter 1 use:-
rename %2 &quot;%~n2 %date%%~x1&quot;

If you want to specify a file extension as part of the name in parameter 2 use:-
rename %2 &quot;%~n2 %date%%~x2&quot;

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