Subj : CMDTIME
To : Bob Swift
From : Robert Bull
Date : Sun Apr 20 2003 06:47 pm
Hello, Bob;
06 Apr 03 17:49, Bob Swift wrote to Robert Bull:
BS> Right you are. I found the problem and posted a corrected version at
I'm still not getting what I wanted/expected, but, I'm not sure that's to
do with CMDTIMEW. It might be something to do with the way COMMAND.COM
passes parameters, or maybe, the way it deals with zero-byte files as I
used for testing (only just thought of that one). Viz.:
dir:
SPAR001 HTM 0 04-14-03 10:12a spar001.htm
cmdtimew ren spar001.htm @
[email protected]
File not found - spar001.htm
dir
SPAR001 HTM 0 04-14-03 10:12a spar001.htm
OTOH;
cmdtimew echo @
[email protected]
2003-04-17_16:03:01.htm
as expected, and how I wanted to rename the file.
Also noticed the following behaviour WRT quote marks;
cmdtimew echo "@
[email protected]"
2003-04-17_16:03:18.htm
cmdtimew echo ""@
[email protected]""
2003-04-17_16:03:24.htm
cmdtimew echo """@
[email protected]"""
"2003-04-17_16:03:31.htm"
i.e., if you want to echo one double-quote, you have to stack three. Not
sure if that means much...
type nul > $.$
cmdtimew ren $.$ @X.htm
dir
2003-0~1 HTM 0 04-17-03 4:04p 2003-04-17.htm
which is OK, but I was after time as well.
Have I missed something?
Thanks,
Robert.
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