Batch file check date modified

View this "Best Answer" in the replies below ». Dataless This person is a verified professional. Verify your account to enable IT peers to see that you are a professional. The file system still has an Archive bit. Depending on what you are using to copy things you could tell it to only copy modified files. Also a utility like rync might be useful as it will only copy the changed bits of files. Pure Capsaicin.

Neally This person is a verified professional. Is it possible to move the files with the directory structure intact? Any help is much appreciated! How to find last modified file in a directory. Hi , Is there a way i can compare file modified time with system time and perform any operation based on it. Your response will be highly appreciated. I have folder it contained 30 date data and i will delete 15 dates data via command prompt.

Please suggest the commands. Get-ChildItem -Path. LastWriteTime -gt Get-Date. Hi guys, Can you please help me with below query. How to search the zip file in a folder with modification date and move it to another folder? Hi, I have some database. How can i modify below code to search.

Hello, How can I move the most recent modified file from directory to another one? Please any one help to to resolve it in a same command line. Leave this field empty. More Recent Posts How to check if Windows 32 or 64 bit? Improve this question. Andriy M 73k 16 16 gold badges 90 90 silver badges bronze badges. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. You can obtain information about the file's modification date and time in a batch script, but you'll need to remember these things: it comes as a combination of date and time; it's locale specific; it's a string.

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Sign up using Facebook. GetFile strFile2 If objFile1. You're right about DOS. For personal scripting, I use Bash in Cygwin. When writing small utilities to be used by the team, I need to use a language available to all. Python is quite widespread here. It also has the cross-platform advantage.

But, Python is a "scripting language" rather than a "shell language", and so spawning sub-processes requires more work. Your suggestion of VBScript is a good one; perhaps I should start to get to know that. I have avoided the "Powershells" deliberately, because Microsoft don't seem to be able to make up their minds to support one properly.

So it's definitely supported properly now. It's worth checking out as it's pretty awesome. If you are using Python, you should use it throughout. It doesn't matter whether its a scripting language or shell language. Its just a name. I am sure you can find modules for svn that works with Python. If really no choice you have to use subprocess module, you would still have the advantage of Python's excellent parsing capabilities. You right about scripting, and I would say that DOS is the worst scripting language ever, a language that is centered around "for files" Wes Wes 4 4 silver badges 6 6 bronze badges.

Since the reviewers seem to be considering my updates "addressing the author" - whatever I add my updates as comments. Please free to edit. You may need to add more delimiters to the following line if your date format contains alternative delimiters too.

If you do not do that then the parsed dates will be entirely arbitrarily structured and comparisons misbehave.

The current implementation generates numeric strings much longer than 31 bit integers worth. I added more updates for supporting seconds precision and based on all updates created a new answer here: stackoverflow. Show 2 more comments. I should probably have just written a perl script. Harmlezz 7, 23 23 silver badges 34 34 bronze badges. Raven Black Raven Black 3 3 silver badges 4 4 bronze badges. Nice trick because it's locale independent.

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