How to get the most recent file using a batch file?

Question

I have a list of zip files with date and time appended like yyyymmdd_hhmmss_Demos.zip. Now how to get the most recently added zip file in the source dir. I need

Answer 1

You can use

pushd D:\a
for /f "tokens=*" %%a in ('dir /b /od') do set newest=%%a
copy "%newest%" D:\b
popd