I tried that. It just pops up and closes right away. No you are not doing it correctly Launch the batch file from with in the CMD box. So open up a cmd prompt first. Change directory to where the batch file is. Then type the batch file name to execute it. Thank you! That did work. All my other batch files work from just clicking on the icon so I just assumed they would all work that way.
Is there any way for to have it output the the file names in a log file rather than on the screen. Glad You Got It Working! Joined Aug 7, Messages 9, As Seen On. Welcome to Tech Support Guy! Latest posts. M 19 minutes ago. Windows M Today at AM. What this does is, xcopy only overwrites the destination file if the origin file is newer. Note: you can also have xcopy handle the situation where the destination file doesn't initially exist, by putting an asterisk at the end of the destination filename; if you don't do that then xcopy isn't sure whether the destination is a filename or folder name and there is no flag to default the answer to filename.
Because the xcopy always returns true in this case you need to filter its output with the findstr command. Based on Wes answer I created updated script. The updates got too numerous to put into comments.
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Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Dave Webb Dave Webb k 56 56 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. I'd like to add that this solution only works if the two files are in the same folder. That can be resolved if one of the files is copied to the other's folder beforehand. In my case, that worked fine. I really don't understand this line. PeteMagsig Seems to work fine if the files aren't in the same folder, but you have to specify the full path to each, and all but the actual name gets stripped so you may have to do some comparison magic to figure out which is which from the results.
Show 1 more comment. Dave Webb's soution while a great one will of course only work on files in the same directory.
Here is a solution that will work on any two files. Community Bot 1 1 1 silver badge. There is one issue I found with this today. This will think PM is newer than PM since 12 is greater than 1. Best Bluetooth Trackers. Best eReaders. Best VPN. Browse All News Articles. Baby Shark YouTube. Venmo Gifts. Fortnite iPhone. Quest Headset SteamVR. M1 Mac Dropbox.
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Re: Compare timestamps of two files seconds too 9 Post by dbenham » Tue Nov 25, pm Did you even look at my answer Everything you need is right there. You can include path information with the file name.
By locale independent, I mean that it works no matter how your machine is configured to display date and time. Dave Benham. Re: Compare timestamps of two files seconds too 10 Post by kadkam » Wed Nov 26, am Thanks Squash for your "concept", I will study it.
Interesting the Compo solution with powershell!
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