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How to Compress a Folder That Changes name

I'm trying to compress a folder that changes name.

Example:

C:\202004
C:\202005
C:\202006
C:\202007

It keep creating a new folder as the months keep going by.

I wanna compress only the folder correspondent to the current month

Solution

  • Get some help from powershell's Get_date command:

    @echo off
for /f "tokens=1 delims=" %%a in ('PowerShell -Command "& {Get-Date -format "yyyyMM"}"') do if exist "C:\%%a" echo C:\%%a

    Where you would replace echo C:\%%a with your actual compression command.

    a better method would be if you can test for the latest created folder and then compress that folder only.

    @echo off
for /f "delims=" %%i in ('dir "c:\20*" /b /ad /o-d') do set "latest=%%i" & goto :comp
:comp
echo Zip/7z/rar "c:\%latest%" here

    Or we can combine the above by find the latest folder, then test if it is corresponding to the month, only then compress it:

    @echo off
@echo off
for /f "delims=" %%i in ('dir "c:\20*" /b /ad /o-d') do set "latest=%%i" & goto :comp
:comp
for /f "tokens=1 delims=" %%a in ('PowerShell -Command "& {Get-Date -format "yyyyMM"}"') do if "%%a" == "%latest%" echo Zip/7z/Rar C:\%latest% here