For categorizing daily backup files, we should make folders named with that date. In this post, we'll talk about how to create a folder by current date.
Check Date Variables
First of all, we open a command prompt (CMD), and then we print the date variables before actually create it.
C:\Users\Administrator>echo "%date:~10,4%%date:~4,2%%date:~7,2%"
"20230616"
It looks good.
Create Date Folder
We use mkdir to make it.
C:\Users\Administrator>mkdir "C:\Backup\%date:~10,4%%date:~4,2%%date:~7,2%"
We see no error.
Switch Date Folder
We can make a test to switch present working directory to the new folder.
C:\Users\Administrator>cd "C:\Backup\%date:~10,4%%date:~4,2%%date:~7,2%"
C:\Backup\20230616>
We made it.
To automatically run the command, you may put the command into your batch file.