From: jj4public@vfemail.net   
      
   On Thu, 28 Feb 2019 08:45:45 -0800, pyotr filipivich wrote:   
   > Greetings   
   >   
   > 	There are three user accounts on the machine: Fred, Bob, and Greg.   
   > I already have a batch file which loops through the Userlist "Fred Bob   
   > Greg" to copy today's files to a thumbdrive.   
   > 	Realizing that Fred and Greg do not get used everyday, I would   
   > like to be able to check if they did anything before starting the   
   > loop. Looking around, I see that Bob's ntuser.dat has today's date if   
   > Bob logged in today.   
   > 	So, is there a way to get the date of that file?   
   >   
   > 	Oh nerts.  I just tried something, and form the command line -   
   > ntuser.dat is invisible.  Being a System, Hidden file, unless I first   
   > run   
   > 	attrib -s -h   
   > command-line won't see it.   
   >   
   > 	(I'm back - I should do my experimentation before I compose this   
   > post, not while.)   
   > 	Anyway, changing the attributes of ntuser.dat does not braek   
   > anything, but because the file is In Use, I can't copy it. But   
   > 	DIR ntuser.dat > Net-Date.txt   
   > works.   
   > 	FIND "02/18" net-date.txt   
   > works as well.   
   >   
   > 	And Errorlevel tells me if 02/18 is found or not.   
   >   
   > 	Now all I need to do is work out how to get today's date into a   
   > format to use as a search term.   
   >   
   > thanks   
   >   
   > pyotr   
      
   Use this.   
      
   @echo off   
   setlocal enabledelayedexpansion   
   set file="c:\file\to\check.txt"   
   set samedate=0   
   for %%A in (%file%) do (   
     set d=%%~tA   
     if "!d:~0,10!" == "%date%" set samedate=1   
   )   
   if %samedate% == 1 echo File date is today.   
      
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