Hi,
Can you help?
I have a system with Windows NT 4.0 with Winzip 9 with command line add on installed. What I need to do:
1. Zip all the files in a directory and move to another directory.
2. Name this zip file in this format YYMMDD.zip - i.e. todays date backwards.
3. Delete zip files in the 2nd directory that are older than x days.
Also, NT doesn't have scheduled tasks. Is there another way of getting this to run every day?
Thanks,
Jeff
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If I remember correctly, NT does have scheduled tasks, but this is a commandline tool. Open the command prompt and enter
at /?
and you should get a list of options for the "at" command.
you could use robocopy, part of the windows 2003 resource kit tools which should also work in NT, to move old files to a nonexesitent device, like nul.
http://www.microsoft.com/d
Couldn't get robocopy to work on the machine. Also tried XXcopy, filename and delold. I've been breaking down pbarrette's delold code and I've found where the problem with this on my system:
for %%i in (*.*) do (
set FileName=%%i
echo %%i
REM %%~ti expands %i to date/time of file
call :PROCESSFILE %%~ti
)
NT doesn't recognise %%~ti. Any ideas what would work for NT?
Regards,
Jeff
Hi,
Thanks for your help so far. Couldn't get robocopy to work, and in the end it doesn't matter because I wouldn't be able to load the resource kit onto our system. It would take months of red tape to get it approved.
I can do it with a batch file as it needs no software but I'm still at that problem:
NT doesn't recognise %%~ti. Any ideas what would work for NT? Need to expand the file so i can work with its date stamp.
My system has NT 4.0, SP3
Jeff
> .. idea how ..
for /F "skip=4 tokens=1,2" %x in ('dir your-filename') do @echo %x %y
it's just an idea (can't test), but I guess that you need to store it in a temporay file or call a second script, somehow (M$ is not designed for scripting, it's click&go)
Think you better install cygwin or SFU and use a true shell (at least something similar to it like bash in these packets;)
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by: jobri5xPosted on 2005-08-23 at 19:55:07ID: 14739347
I've figured out the 1st 2 steps:
1. Zip all the files in a directory and move to another directory.
2. Name this zip file in this format YYMMDD.zip - i.e. todays date backwards.
Need help on step 3....tried pbarrett's delold but I cannot get it to work on my system. Its got NT 4.0.