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~~ Suffix a date: ~~
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ren c:\temp\abc.txt abc%date:~4,2%-%date:~7,2%-%date:~10%.txt
::temadan

~~ Copy, adding system date: ~~
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@ECHO OFF
FOR /F "TOKENS=2-4 DELIMS=/ " %%F IN ('DATE /T') DO (SET TODAY=%%F%%G%%H)
COPY /Y /B C:\TEMP\*.VCH C:\Upload\Combined.vch
REN C:\Upload\Combined.vch Combined-%TODAY%.vch
::pbarrette

for /f "tokens=1-5 delims=/ " %%d in ("%date%") do rename "hope.txt" %%e-%%f-%%g.txt

* for /f - The for command and the /f switch.
* "tokens=1-5 delims=/ " - How many tokens the incoming data (in this case the date) will be broken into; 1-5 is five different tokens. Finally, delims is short for delimiters and is what is used to break up the date, in this example the / (forward slash) and a space (space before the quote).
* %%d - The beginning character used for the token. Since there are 5 tokens in this example it would be d,e,f,g, and h.
* in ("%date%") - The data being used, in this case the %date% is the current date of the computer.
* do - What the for command will do. The rename command can be substituted for anything else.
* rename "hope.txt" %%e-%%f-%%g.txt - rename the file "hope.txt" to the tokens e,f, and g with a .txt file extension. This example also has a - (hyphen) in-between each token to separate the month, day, and year in the file name.

When %date% is used in a batch file it displays the date in the following format: Sun 09/02/2007 this command breaks this date into the tokens: "Sun" (%%d), "09" (%%e), "02" (%%f), and "2007" (%%g).

In this example using the above date mentioned hope.txt would be renamed to 09-02-2007.txt.

Time

for /f "tokens=1-5 delims=:" %%d in ("%time%") do rename "hope.txt" %%d-%%e.txt

This command is very similar to the above example. However, instead of using the forward slash and space to break up the data we're using a : (colon) because the time is split up with this character. Finally, because we're renaming the file to only the hour and minute this example is only using the d and e token. Additional information about what everything in this line means is found in the above date example.

When %time% is used in a batch file it displays the time in the following format: 19:34:52.25, this command breaks this time into the tokens: "19" (%%d), "34" (%%e), and "52.25" (%%f).

In this example using the above time mentioned hope.txt would be renamed to 19-34.txt.