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asked on 1/8/2013

DOS Compare File Name

Hello,

Can someone help me,

I’m having 2 files named the same way but having the date stamp and second stamp at the end ( YYYY-MM-DD HH-MM-SS)

Exemple : PDF Flash Color Daily Sales Flash2013-01-08 08.32.41.326.pdf
PDF Flash Color Daily Sales Flash2013-01-08 08.45.41.326.pdf

And I would like to ensure to copy only the most resent one. How can I do that ?

This need to be done in batch.

Thanks a lot

Microsoft DOSShell ScriptingScripting Languages

Last Comment

Bill Prew

8/22/2022 - Mon

oBdA

1/8/2013

Since you have a sensible naming convention (that is, yyyymmdd instead of mmddyyyy), you can just use a regular directory sorting and pick the last one. The script below is in test mode and will only display the copy command; remove the uppercase ECHO in front of "copy" to run it for real:

@echo off
setlocal
set SourceFolder=C:\Source
set TargetFolder=C:\Target
set Prefix=PDF Flash Color Daily Sales Flash
for /f "delims=" %%a in ('dir /b /o:n "%SourceFolder%\%Prefix%*.pdf"') do set LatestFile=%%a
echo Latest file: %LatestFile%
ECHO copy "%SourceFolder%\%LatestFile%" "%TargetFolder%"

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If the actual time stamps of the files are correct, you could use those, too, by changing "/o:n" to "/o:d" in line 6.

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