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sorry thought i HAD closed this out. &nbsp;Worked great.
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sorry thought i HAD closed this out.  Worked great.

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Hello- I have a windows batch file that runs on a server using task scheduler. &nbsp;It copies some files from one server share to another. &nbsp;That part works fine. &nbsp;What I would like to be able to have is a log file in the target destination folder that shows when the batch file ran and updates itself as part of the batch file, putting he most recent event at the top<br />
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Something simple, lke a text file log.txt which contains:<br />
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04/30/2014 08:00 Copy Complete<br />
04/30/2014 07:45 Copy Complete<br />
04/30/2014 07:30 COPY Complete<br />
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Can anyone help with the code I would add in the batch file to create the log file (log.txt) if for some reason it does not exist, and then add the current date, time and 'Copy Complete' message to the top line in the text file?<br />
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Thanks!
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Hello- I have a windows batch file that runs on a server using task scheduler.  It copies some files from one server share to another.  That part works fine.  What I would like to be able to have is a log file in the target destination folder that shows when the batch file ran and updates itself as part of the batch file, putting he most recent event at the top

Something simple, lke a text file log.txt which contains:

04/30/2014 08:00 Copy Complete
04/30/2014 07:45 Copy Complete
04/30/2014 07:30 COPY Complete

Can anyone help with the code I would add in the batch file to create the log file (log.txt) if for some reason it does not exist, and then add the current date, time and 'Copy Complete' message to the top line in the text file?

Thanks!

batch file coding help- creating a logfile

Batch files are text files containing a script of commands that are executed by the command interpreter on DOS, OS/2 and Windows systems. Most commonly, they are used to perform a series of functions that are repeated -- copying a set of files created daily with one step, for example.

Windows Batch

A scripting language is a programming language that supports scripts, programs written for a special run-time environment that automate the execution of tasks that could alternatively be executed one-by-one by a human operator. Scripting languages are often interpreted (rather than compiled). Primitives are usually the elementary tasks or API calls, and the language allows them to be combined into more complex programs. Environments that can be automated through scripting include software applications, web pages within a web browser, the shells of operating systems (OS), embedded systems, as well as numerous games. A scripting language can be viewed as a domain-specific language for a particular environment; in the case of scripting an application, this is also known as an extension language.