How to create a folder with name as current date in batch (.bat) files

Question

I don\'t know much about windows .bat file syntax. My simple requirement is to create a folder at a specific location with name as current date. I tried searching this on go

Answer 1

Thanks for the info all, very helpful. I needed something that could create "backup" folder as often as every minute in the same directory, as well as call on it later in the script. Here's what I came up with:

@ echo off

CD %userprofile%\desktop

SET Datefolder="%DATE:~4,2%-%DATE:~7,2%-%DATE:~12,2%_%time:~1,1%%time:~3,2%"

MD "%Datefolder%"

This gives me a folder on the currently logged on user's desktop named: mm-dd-yy_hmm (hour minute minute) ie: 07-28-15_719

Answer 2

echo var D = new Date() > tmp.js 
echo D = (D.getFullYear()*100+D.getMonth()+1)*100+D.getDate() >> tmp.js 
echo WScript.Echo( 'set YYYYMMDD='+D ) >> tmp.js 
echo @echo off > tmp.bat 
cscript //nologo tmp.js >> tmp.bat 
call tmp.bat
mkdir %YYYYMMDD%

Answer 3

Quick and dirty: If you can live with the date being UTC instead of local, you can use:

for /f "skip=1" %%d in ('wmic os get localdatetime') do if not defined mydate set mydate=%%d
md %mydate:~0,8%

Works in all locales. Only on XP and higher, though.

Answer 4

I had a problem with this because my server ABSOLUTELY had to have its date in MM/dd/yyyy format, while I wanted the directory to be in YYYY-MM-DD format for neatness sake. Here's how to get it in YYYY-MM-DD format, no matter what your regional settings are set as.

Find out what gets displayed when you use %DATE%:

From a command prompt type:

ECHO %DATE%

Mine came out 03/06/2013 (as in 6th March 2013)

Therefore, to get a directory name as 2013-03-06, code this into your batch file:

SET dirname="%date:~6,4%-%date:~0,2%-%date:~3,2%"
mkdir %dirname%

Answer 5

this is a more simpler solution.

@ECHO OFF
set name=%date%
echo %name%
mkdir %name% 

Answer 6

You'll like this, change it so that it can suit your requirements.

mkdir today
Copy Desktop\test1\*.* today
setlocal enableextensions
set name=%DATE:/=_%
Rename "today" _OlddatabaseBackup_"%name%"