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|    foxidrive to James Shamblin    |
|    Re: Year Month Day Hour Minute Second    |
|    07 Mar 13 20:17:34    |
   
   From: not@this.address.invalid   
      
   On 7/03/2013 8:09 PM, James Shamblin wrote:   
   > Hi,   
   >   
   > I have to run a file integrity checker within a Win 7 CMD box.   
   >   
   > This is done nightly right after the file generates.   
   >   
   > What I would like to do is accomplish this check with a 1 click batch file.   
   >   
   > The file looks like this: test.test.test.20130307010139   
   >   
   > The only thing that changes is the YYYYMMDDHHMMSS   
   >   
   > My question is how do I specify YYYYMMDDHHMMSS in the batch file so it will   
   run each day when clicked?   
   >   
   > Oh, these also build up in a folder so I need to insure the latest file gets   
   checked.   
   >   
   > Thanks for any help!   
   >   
   > James   
   >   
      
   @echo off   
   for /f "delims=" %%a in ('dir "test.test.*" /b /a-d /od') do set "file=%%a"   
   :: check file integrity here with "%file%"   
   echo "%file%"   
   pause   
      
      
      
      
      
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   foxi   
      
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