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  • February 20, 2013 at 8:20 am

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    sturner (2/20/2013)

    you are running bcp from a shell, so get the current date (M/D/Y) part into a variable:

    set DATEVAR=%DATE:~4,10%

    as part of a filename you probably want to change the / to - like this:

    set mydate=%DATEVAR:/=-%

    then you can use %mydate% in your batch command wherever you want the current date, like today would be: 02-20-2013

    What language are you using? This doesn't appear to be T-SQL.

    Never mind. I get it. These are batch commands at the command line level. Well done.

    Can you think of a way to have the date come out in the ISO format of YYYYMMDD to support sortable file names using the batch commands?

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