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capture today's date in a variable?

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by sun100mon

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I am trying to rename my backup file to include today's date in a script and run as a *.bat file.
set /a today=%date/t%
set /a today=date/t
set today=date
all did not work.

Can you shed some light on this?

thanks
andrew

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by pvp

You can get date components like this:

for /f "tokens=1,2,3,4* delims=/ " %%i in ('date /t') do set TDDAY=%%i&set TDMM=%%j&set TDDD=%%k&set TDYY=%%l

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