How to append date to directory path in xcopy

Question

I do have a xcopy statement in bat file.. would you please help me to append today\'s date to one of directories in destination xcopy /S /E /I %sourceFolder% \"C:\\Shared\\

Answer 1

Just use %date% in your command:

xcopy /S /E /I %sourceFolder% "C:\Shared\copy\copy-%date%"

Note: this will keep the date in the original format.

Assuming your local date format is Fri 06/07/2013 you can format it into 06072013 by cutting up the string like this:

%date:~4,2%%date:~7,2%%date:~10,4%

So the final command will be:

xcopy /S /E /I %sourceFolder% "C:\Shared\copy\copy-%date:~4,2%%date:~7,2%%date:~10,4%"