Applied dimensionality

When gathering logs, or performing backups, it's useful to append date suffix to the result file.
But that's all not so trivial calculating such suffix in pure bat-files.
We'll use system variables %date% and %time%.
Try executing "echo %date%" and "echo %time%" from command line and watch the output.
We'll append date suffix, and will show final result for time+date.

Suppose we need to rename the file test.txt to test_currdate.txt.

On my laptop "echo %date%" gives "05.12.2006".
Be careful, output depends on regional settings (I've got Russian), so you'll need to modify this script.
"test_05.12.2006.txt" doesn't look that good, I'd prefer "test_05122006.txt", so we'll need to calculate 05122006 from 05.12.2006.
This can be done via :~ operator, allowing to cut substrings. Syntax is str:~start_position,length.

So the following line will calculate the variable currdate, holding "05122006".

 
set curdate=%date:~6,4%%date:~3,2%%date:~0,2%
 

rename command allows to change name of file, therefore you just run

 
set curdate=%date:~6,4%%date:~3,2%%date:~0,2%
rename test.txt test_%currdate%.txt
 

Script for grabbing specified files from servers below.

This bat file accepts servernames as arguments and iterates through them to rename&gather all PlanningErrorLog.csv logs in one place (namely, C:\Logs).

 
@echo off
rem Gathering the Logs from command line arguments=servernames
rem directory to write
set destination="C:Logs\"
set user=Admin
set pwd=~~~~~~~~
set log_directory="WindowsTemp\"
set log_name=PlanningErrorLog
echo Monitoring %date% %time%>>c:logsmonitor_log.txt
:LOOP
IF "%1" == "" GOTO END
net use \\%1\c$ %pwd% /USER:%1\%user%set curtime=%date:~6,4%%date:~3,2%%date:~0,2%_%time:~0,2%%time:~3,2%%time:~6,2%
if EXIST \\%1\c$%log_directory%%log_name%.csv rename \\%1\c$\%log_directory%%log_name%.csv %1_%log_name%%curtime%.csv
& xcopy \\%1\c$\%log_directory%%1_%log_name%%curtime%.csv  %destination% /DY
net use /delete \\%1\c$ /Y
SHIFT
GOTO LOOP
:END