Command prompt rename file with date

Active Oldest Votes. Rem Rem if equal 10am or later 2 digit hour then first remame will work and second will not Rem as doekasp. I ended up with: ren Logs. Jan Gerlinger 7, 1 1 gold badge 43 43 silver badges 52 52 bronze badges. Always inadvisable to use hacks maintainability and keeping things simple to follow and understand should always be the number 1 golden rule for all work. Most solutions below are cleaner than this although you do use the best time format IMHO.

Digging up the old thread because all solutions have missed the simplest fix If you want a locale agnostic way of doing this, the solution is a little more complex - you must use the results of command wmic os get localdatetime. An example of this can be seen in link — SeeMoreGain. Thanks, that explains it. I am muddy and you are dummy. Raj Gohil Raj Gohil 51 1 1 silver badge 3 3 bronze badges. Roger Roger 41 1 1 bronze badge.

Jude Duran 2, 2 2 gold badges 23 23 silver badges 40 40 bronze badges. James Chong James Chong 61 2 2 bronze badges. Y Jim. Y 1 3 3 bronze badges. That's not valid cmd syntax. Draken 3, 13 13 gold badges 34 34 silver badges 52 52 bronze badges.

I didn't see the question was about cmd.. The Overflow Blog. I am open to using some VBScript but would be starting from scratch with it. Currently it copies the files down through 3 subfolders e. Tuesday, March 16, PM. Your main problem is that the date has slashes. These are converted to backslashes in the folder creation. Try something like this instead The syntax I used replaces the slashes with hyphens, which are acceptable in folder names. Note that I also added a closing slash to the destination in the XCOPY to indicate that this is a folder, not a file name.

It saves having to answer a question at run time. Tom Lavedas. Tom, you are a gentleman and a scholar. Rem: Used to record comments or remarks in a batch or script file. Ren: The shorthand version of the rename command.

Rename: Used to change the name of the individual file that you. We can use the command rename to rename files from windows command prompt CMD. Find below syntax of the command with examples. You also need to have sufficient privileges to rename the file.