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Number   :  9125
Date     :  2004-11-03
Author   :  Garry Deane
Subject  :  Re: Copy to new Filename or Directory
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--- In xxcopy@yahoogroups.com, Peter Innes  
wrote:
> Thanks very much for your swift reply. xxcopy seemed to be
> so powerful that it is a great surprise to me that it doesn't
> have such an obvious feature that even DOS xcopy had!
> 
> I'm trying to copy a file to a date-stamped filename. Over
> time a series of date-stamped copies of the file from at
> different times will build up. It's part of a backup strategy.
> 
> I may have to copy the file somewhere then rename.
> 
> Thanks,
> Peter 

In addition to what John has said, here's an old post which
might give some pointers to using xxcopy with /SL (or /SR)
to do the renaming.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/xxcopy/message/5129

Garry



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