General Batch File ?

[G-Stress]

Hey guys, I am a complete n00b with batch scripting. I find it understandable for the most part, but some can be a bit confusing.

I'm trying to understand exactly what is going on in this script I found to copy images from a camera drive and save them to the current user's mydocuments/mypic's folder:

http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/1952/xp_bat...rganize_by_date

It seems fairly understandable, but what is confusing me and I can't understand even after a couple hours of googling is the part specifying the date

FOR /F "TOKENS=1* DELIMS= " %%A IN ('DATE/T') DO SET CDATE=%%B

FOR /F "TOKENS=1,2 eol=/ DELIMS=/ " %%A IN ('DATE/T') DO SET mm=%%B

FOR /F "TOKENS=1,2 DELIMS=/ eol=/" %%A IN ('echo %CDATE%') DO SET dd=%%B

FOR /F "TOKENS=2,3 DELIMS=/ " %%A IN ('echo %CDATE%') DO SET yyyy=%%B

SET date=%mm%%dd%%yyyy%

with the FOR command. I slightly understand the TOKENS and DELIMS part, but what is %%A? To my understanding from googling that appears to be a variable, but I do not see it defined anywhere else in this script or understand what it does or %%B

What I get from looking at that portion of the code is the variables should only be mm dd and yyy.

Also anyone know of any video tutorials that provide Windows Shell Scripting/Batch Filing?

Thanks in advance.

[SomeoneE1se]

Doesn't windows do this automagicly

[elmer]

Yes, %%A is a variable, but just as any other %%[letter] it does not need to be defined and is used mainly for the FOR command.

[G-Stress]

@ elmer

Ok I kinda thought that, but what exactly is it doing? It's purpose for the mentioned lines of code?