Help with DOS batch scripting

[RagnaroK]

Hi,
Just wondering if the following is possible:

If I were to put this into a batch file, for example:

@echo off
echo Copy done @
date /t
time /t

The following would be displayed onscreen correct?

Copy done @
Mon 01/01/0001
00:01 AM

Now what I want to do is to get the above info displayed onscreen like this instead:

Copy done @ Mon 01/01/0001 00:01 AM

I want it on the one same line instead of the three lines? Is it possible? Thanks and any input is appreciated. 😀

 

[the_tazinator]

This should do what you need to do:

@ECHO OFF
set timestamp=%date% %time%
echo Copy done @ %timestamp%

Sample output:

Copy done @ Sun 01/18/2004 22:33:16.29

 

[Shamus MacNoob]

Yes that looks right the echo command will display the message that follows the echo

 

[the_tazinator]

If you are not doing anything between the time recorded and the time displayed you could just do:

@ECHO OFF
Copy done @ %date% %time%

 

[RagnaroK]

Just what I needed. Thank you very much.
I'm interested in learning more of such programming, do you know where I can do that?

Edit:
Umm, got a problem. Are the %date% and %time% commands OS specific? Because I tested the commands on my WinXP system at home, and they worked fine, but I tried them on a WinNT system, and it doesn't show the date and time. 🙁

 

[AcftMecH]

dos commands

you might already have something like this but here is a DOS commands website that is pretty good.

Dos commands

 

[the_tazinator]

I think that those commands will only work on Windows 2000 and above. I haven't used an NT machine in a couple of years so I have dumped most of what I remember about it.