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Creating a dated directory

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Old 06-27-2008   #1 (permalink)
tERRY
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Creating a dated directory

I'm a scripting and PowerShell newbie. I have a daily requirement to create a
directory with yesterday's date. I wrote a function to calculate yesterday's
date and put it in the variable, $yesterday. I can't figure out how to
extract the date as a string and insert it in the new-item cmdlet to create
the directory. Does anyone have any suggestions?
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Terry Edwards
Old 06-27-2008   #2 (permalink)
Karl Mitschke
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Re: Creating a dated directory

Hello Terry,

Something like this will work:

$date = ( get-date ).AddDays(-1).ToString('yyyyMMdd')
mkdir "c:\$date"
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> I'm a scripting and PowerShell newbie. I have a daily requirement to
> create a directory with yesterday's date. I wrote a function to
> calculate yesterday's date and put it in the variable, $yesterday. I
> can't figure out how to extract the date as a string and insert it in
> the new-item cmdlet to create the directory. Does anyone have any
> suggestions?
>

Old 06-27-2008   #3 (permalink)
tERRY
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Re: Creating a dated directory

Thanks, Karl. It worked. How do you find out about the ".AddDays" and
".ToString" functions?
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Terry Edwards


"Karl Mitschke" wrote:
Quote:

> Hello Terry,
>
> Something like this will work:
>
> $date = ( get-date ).AddDays(-1).ToString('yyyyMMdd')
> mkdir "c:\$date"
>
Quote:

> > I'm a scripting and PowerShell newbie. I have a daily requirement to
> > create a directory with yesterday's date. I wrote a function to
> > calculate yesterday's date and put it in the variable, $yesterday. I
> > can't figure out how to extract the date as a string and insert it in
> > the new-item cmdlet to create the directory. Does anyone have any
> > suggestions?
> >
>
>
>
Old 06-27-2008   #4 (permalink)
Karl Mitschke
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Re: Creating a dated directory

Hello Terry,

$date = ( get-date )
$date |gm




Quote:

> Thanks, Karl. It worked. How do you find out about the ".AddDays" and
> ".ToString" functions?
>
> "Karl Mitschke" wrote:
>
Quote:

>> Hello Terry,
>>
>> Something like this will work:
>>
>> $date = ( get-date ).AddDays(-1).ToString('yyyyMMdd') mkdir
>> "c:\$date"
>>
Quote:

>>> I'm a scripting and PowerShell newbie. I have a daily requirement to
>>> create a directory with yesterday's date. I wrote a function to
>>> calculate yesterday's date and put it in the variable, $yesterday. I
>>> can't figure out how to extract the date as a string and insert it
>>> in the new-item cmdlet to create the directory. Does anyone have any
>>> suggestions?
>>>

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