Subj : Re: .bats
To   : Spiro Dotgeek
From : Paul Hayton
Date : Sat Oct 18 2014 20:36:58

On 10/18/14, Spiro Dotgeek pondered and said...
 
 SD> I don't actually know anything about batch scripting on windows. I'm a
 SD> unix guy through and through, and that whole script could be replaced
 SD> with a one-liner in linux:


Success it's %date:~-4,4%-%date:~-7,2%-%date:~-10,2%-filename.txt

From the web  

The :~ substring command works like this:

:~[START POS],[LENGTH]

If [START_POS] is positive or zero the substring will start from the left. If
the number [START_POS] is negative it will start from the right. And [LENGTH]
is the number of characters in the opposite direction of the starting point.


`I'm not expendable, I'm not stupid, and I'm not going' - Kerr Avon, Blake's 7

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