Date format windows shell script

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November 9th, 2008, 03:14 AM

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Date format windows shell script

Hello, I wrote a small batch file that will print today and yesterday date to be used in anther application. problem is with yesterday date, if the date is between 1 to 9 it will print it with out "0", i mean like "2008119" instead of printing it as "20081109".

this is the script:

Code:

@echo off

REM Set Date format
FOR /F "TOKENS=1* DELIMS= " %%A IN ('DATE/T') DO SET CDATE=%%B
FOR /F "TOKENS=1,2 eol=/ DELIMS=/ " %%A IN ('DATE/T') DO SET mm=%%B
FOR /F "TOKENS=1,2 DELIMS=/ eol=/" %%A IN ('echo %CDATE%') DO SET dd=%%B
FOR /F "TOKENS=2,3 DELIMS=/ " %%A IN ('echo %CDATE%') DO SET yyyy=%%B
SET date=%yyyy%%mm%%dd%
echo today is %date%

REM define yesterday date
set /A dd=%dd%-1
set Pdate=%yyyy%%mm%%dd%
echo yesterday was %Pdate%

exit

any idea ?

November 13th, 2008, 01:11 AM

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for work around i used if-else:

Code:

@echo off

REM Set Date format
FOR /F "TOKENS=1* DELIMS= " %%A IN ('DATE/T') DO SET CDATE=%%B
FOR /F "TOKENS=1,2 eol=/ DELIMS=/ " %%A IN ('DATE/T') DO SET mm=%%B
FOR /F "TOKENS=1,2 DELIMS=/ eol=/" %%A IN ('echo %CDATE%') DO SET dd=%%B
FOR /F "TOKENS=2,3 DELIMS=/ " %%A IN ('echo %CDATE%') DO SET yyyy=%%B
SET date=%yyyy%%mm%%dd%
echo today is %date%

REM define yesterday date
set /A dd=%dd%-1

IF %dd% LSS 10 (

		set Pdate=%yyyy%%mm%0%dd%

	) ELSE (
		set Pdate=%yyyy%%mm%%dd% 
		
	)
	
	echo yesterday was %Pdate%

exit

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