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Please forgive me if this is a stupid question, I'm new at this. I have pieced together the code below and it works for one .pdf file. But, it never gets to the second .bat file. Can someone please explain to me what I'm doing wrong. I'll be honest I do not understand some of this code, I mostly got...

oh sorry I guess I don't know what im doing

Squashman,

The pause did the trick. I guess it was calling the other batch file before it got a chance to switch
directories. Thanks for all of your help. I owe you. If you ever have and SQL questions let me know.

Mark

I tried cd and chdir with and without /D and it still doesn't work.

When I run the code below it goes to the rename function but it never changes the directory. P: is on a different machine and I think that this is the problem. Is this a permissions problem or a coding problem? Any thoughts? Thanks, Mark @echo off setlocal enabledelayedexpansion FOR /F "delims=...

I have a txt file that looks like this: 201501,20140101_20141231 201502,20140201_20150131 201503,20140301_20150228 201504,20140401_20150331 201505,20140501_20150430 201506,20140601_20150531 201507,20140701_20150630 201508,20140801_20150731 201509,20140901_20150831. Would it be easier to just write a...

Squashman,

Thank You very much, that worked perfectly.

Mark

Just copying .pdf files from a report server to a shared network drive. The timestamp is written into the file name and
only need to copy the latest dated file. There will be several files that need to be copied like this but if you could show me an
example for 1 I could do the others.

I need to automate the following process: A Crystal report is run on a monthly basis which creates the following file each month: sls316_2015-01-06-04-12-37.pdf where 2015-01-06-04-23-37 is the date-time the pdf file was created. Each month the date time changes and I need a batch script to copy thi...