Little DOS help with wildcards

[MaxBurn]

First of all I am running this under XP or 2003 so I don't know if that changes much. I have a bat file that is sensitive to certain environment variables in the time and date and I want to find a way to check for that so I did something like this:

For /f "tokens=2,3,4 delims=/ " %%i in ('date /t') do (set DATE=%%k.%%i.%%j)

IF ????.??.?? == %DATE% echo ALL GOOD

Problem is that won't work for whatever reason even though the date is returned in this fashion "YYYY.MM.DD" which is what I need as I am using it in a file name so this is perfect for me.

I do know that if I do this it will work fine:

For /f "tokens=2,3,4 delims=/ " %%i in ('date /t') do (set DATE=%%k.%%i.%%j)

IF 2006.12.11 == %DATE% echo ALL GOOD

I thought that I could use a "?" to replace a single character and a "*" for multiple characters but that doesn't seem to work at all.

 

[Will Rickards]

Can you tell me in plain English or pseudo code what you are trying to do?

I think you are trying to run that if statement for each iteration of the for statement. But I don't think that is what is happening. Your do ends on the first line I think.

 

[MaxBurn]

Can you tell me in plain English or pseudo code what you are trying to do?

I think you are trying to run that if statement for each iteration of the for statement. But I don't think that is what is happening. Your do ends on the first line I think.

It does end on the first line, the FOR statement outputs this on most computers with default environment variables = 2006.12.11

Basically I am trying to check the form of that result to make sure it doesn't somehow come out with something funky like a / that I can't use in a file name. Also I like the order, it stacks the directory results in ABC123 order in list view nicely.

This is part of a backup bat file I have for our application at work, just trying to make it a little better with some error control.

 

[MaxBurn]

This is the neutered (safe to run) version of my BAT file:

http://scottjal.ath.cx:85/watches/BackupNOW.txt