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Regarding Windows/Dos scripting in WIN2K

Hello,

I have some files in this format

testss_db_200312041101.BAK
ts_db_200312030901.bak
abcsscscscs_db_200312030707.BAK

Is there a way i can write a script to go through all the files in a particular directory
and get that datetime part (200312041101)

Thanks in Advance.

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schinni

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Hi obda,

Can you help me with this
Hello,
I have to delete files older than 3days
My files end with this extension 2000402021211..etc
so i am getting the extension and comparing with
currentdate -3

basically i want to do %FileDD%/ -3

rem @echo off
setlocal

for /f "tokens=1,2" %%u in ('date /t') do set d=%%v
for /f "tokens=5-8 delims=:., " %%a in ('echo:^|time') do (
set hh=%%a
set mn=%%b
set ss=%%c
set cs=%%d
)

set curtim=%d:~6,4%%d:~0,2%%d:~3,2%%hh%%mn%
:: Current Date -3

I am doing this because of octal 8 and 9

if %d:~3,2% LSS 10 set /a dat = %d:~4,1%-3
if %d:~3,2% GTR 7 set /a dat = %d:~4,1%-3
if %d:~3,2% GTR 09 set /a dat = %d:~3,2%-3
if %d:~3,2% LSS 8 set /a dat = %d:~3,2%-3

if %dat% LSS 10 set dat=0%dat%
if %hh% LSS 10 set hh=0%hh%

set timestr=%d:~6,4%%d:~0,2%%dat%%hh%%mn%

I am doing this to getting the currentdate and subtracting date varaible with -3
it works great but when it's from day 1 to 3 of the month i am getting negative variables
and also one more thing is
cuurent date is 200402021111 i am subtracting 02 -3 which i am getting -1
and the whole doesn't work correctly ..

can anybody help me with the workaround

Thanks in Advance!