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So I'm having trouble trying to figure this out with FORFILES. I'm trying to get files that are no more then 4 days old. So essentially anything less than 4 days. However it does not seem quite possible since the /d -4 gets all items 4 days or older.

Below is what I have so far.

FORFILES /p T:\Downloads /m *.exe /c "cmd /c copy @path T:\Downloads\Applications | echo Copying @path" /d +4

Anyone know if this is possible? Or maybe a better alternative?

Huy Nguyen
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This might work for you:

@echo off &setlocal
cd /d "T:\Downloads"
(for %%a in (*.exe) do @echo "%%~a")>dir.txt
for /f "delims=" %%a in ('forfiles /d -4 /m *.exe ^|findstr /vig:/ dir.txt') do echo Copying %%a&copy "%%~a" "T:\Downloads\Applications"
del dir.txt

Unfortunately this doesn't work in XP.

Endoro
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This seems to work here: it calculates the date 4 days ago and uses that date in the forfiles command.

@echo off
set date1=today
set qty=-4
set separator=/
if /i "%date1%" EQU "TODAY" (set date1=now) else (set date1="%date1%")
echo >"%temp%\%~n0.vbs" s=DateAdd("d",%qty%,%date1%)
echo>>"%temp%\%~n0.vbs" d=weekday(s)
echo>>"%temp%\%~n0.vbs" WScript.Echo year(s)^&_
echo>>"%temp%\%~n0.vbs"         right(100+month(s),2)^&_
echo>>"%temp%\%~n0.vbs"         right(100+day(s),2)^&_
echo>>"%temp%\%~n0.vbs"         d
for /f %%a in ('cscript //nologo "%temp%\%~n0.vbs"') do set result=%%a
del "%temp%\%~n0.vbs"
endlocal& (
set "YY=%result:~0,4%"
set "MM=%result:~4,2%"
set "DD=%result:~6,2%"
set "daynum=%result:~-1%"
)
set "day=%DD%%separator%%MM%%separator%%YY%"

FORFILES /p T:\Downloads /m *.exe /d %day% /c "cmd /c copy @path T:\Downloads\Applications & echo Copying @path"

pause
foxidrive
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I decided to go with another option for the previous date. I found another script online that gets me the previous dates in Batch, which works just fine for my needs. Since I can call this file and pass it the previous number of days I want and it outputs me the date I want.

http://www.powercram.com/2010/07/get-yesterdays-date-in-ms-dos-batch.html

@echo off

set yyyy=

set $tok=1-3
for /f "tokens=1 delims=.:/-, " %%u in ('date /t') do set $d1=%%u
if "%$d1:~0,1%" GTR "9" set $tok=2-4
for /f "tokens=%$tok% delims=.:/-, " %%u in ('date /t') do (
for /f "skip=1 tokens=2-4 delims=/-,()." %%x in ('echo.^|date') do (
set %%x=%%u
set %%y=%%v
set %%z=%%w
set $d1=
set $tok=))

if "%yyyy%"=="" set yyyy=%yy%
if /I %yyyy% LSS 100 set /A yyyy=2000 + 1%yyyy% - 100

set CurDate=%mm%/%dd%/%yyyy%
set dayCnt=%1

if "%dayCnt%"=="" set dayCnt=1

REM Substract your days here
set /A dd=1%dd% - 100 - %dayCnt%
set /A mm=1%mm% - 100

:CHKDAY
if /I %dd% GTR 0 goto DONE
set /A mm=%mm% - 1
if /I %mm% GTR 0 goto ADJUSTDAY
set /A mm=12
set /A yyyy=%yyyy% - 1

:ADJUSTDAY
if %mm%==1 goto SET31
if %mm%==2 goto LEAPCHK
if %mm%==3 goto SET31
if %mm%==4 goto SET30
if %mm%==5 goto SET31
if %mm%==6 goto SET30
if %mm%==7 goto SET31
if %mm%==8 goto SET31
if %mm%==9 goto SET30
if %mm%==10 goto SET31
if %mm%==11 goto SET30
REM ** Month 12 falls through

:SET31
set /A dd=31 + %dd%
goto CHKDAY

:SET30
set /A dd=30 + %dd%
goto CHKDAY

:LEAPCHK
set /A tt=%yyyy% %% 4
if not %tt%==0 goto SET28
set /A tt=%yyyy% %% 100
if not %tt%==0 goto SET29
set /A tt=%yyyy% %% 400
if %tt%==0 goto SET29

:SET28
set /A dd=28 + %dd%
goto CHKDAY

:SET29
set /A dd=29 + %dd%
goto CHKDAY

:DONE
if /I %mm% LSS 10 set mm=0%mm%
if /I %dd% LSS 10 set dd=0%dd%

REM Set IIS and AWS date variables
set IISDT=%yyyy:~2,2%%mm%%dd%
set AWSDT=%yyyy%-%mm%-%dd%

The results would look like: IIS Date: 100727 AWS Date: 2010-07-27

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