Code snippetry.

[sobrique]

OK. So if you're anything like me, you occasionally deal with log files.

Sometimes these log files are on systems which don't have anything remotely resembling a real shell.

So, here's a little snippet of usefulness:

for /F "tokens=1-3 delims=/ " %%v in ('date /T') do (
set day=%%v
set month=%%w
set year=%%x)

echo %year%%month%%day%

move D:\Legato\nsr\logs\daemon.log D:\Legato\nsr\logs\daemon.%year%%month%%day%.log



Lets me output a date in a format of YYYYMMDD, which is far more useful than most defaults because you get to sort by filename, in date order.

Comments

[mister-jack.livejournal.com]

The awesome power of YYYYMMDD should be known to all programmers; hell, all computer users.

[sobrique.livejournal.com]

I know it's such a _trival_ thing, but for bonus points it also gets away from the rather irritating ambiguity that is created by the moronic US date format.

[malal.livejournal.com]

Seconded.