Special %date% variable not working
Hi there,
I'm trying to use the following WinSCP script which calls a script remotely and generates a tar.bz2 file which includes a date in the name, e.g. Backup-Nov-2012.tar.bz2. This part works correctly however the script does not appear to correctly interpret the special date environment variable which is in the following format: %date:~3,8%
Through the regional settings on the Windows client I have configured the date short format to show up as dd-MMM-yyyy which actually translates to for example 26-Nov-2012, so when I use %date:~3,8% I get Nov-2012.
The following is my script, if I call it on the command line I can see that it is not correctly evaluating the date variable:
Your help appreciated.
I'm trying to use the following WinSCP script which calls a script remotely and generates a tar.bz2 file which includes a date in the name, e.g. Backup-Nov-2012.tar.bz2. This part works correctly however the script does not appear to correctly interpret the special date environment variable which is in the following format: %date:~3,8%
Through the regional settings on the Windows client I have configured the date short format to show up as dd-MMM-yyyy which actually translates to for example 26-Nov-2012, so when I use %date:~3,8% I get Nov-2012.
The following is my script, if I call it on the command line I can see that it is not correctly evaluating the date variable:
option confirm off open -timeout=18000 diesel call /home/diesel/tmpbackup/backup.sh >/dev/null 2>&1 lcd c:\foobar bi get /home/diesel/tmpbackup/Backup-"%date:~3,8%".tar.bz2 exit
C:\Program Files (x86)\WinSCP>winscp.com /script=c:\foobar\backup.txt confirm off Searching for host... Connecting to host... Authenticating... Using username "xyz". Authenticating with pre-entered password. Authenticated. Starting the session... Reading remote directory... Session started. Active session: [1] diesel C:\foobar transfer binary Can't get attributes of file '/home/diesel/tmpbackup/Backup-%date:~3,8%.tar.bz2' . No such file or directory. Error code: 2 Error message from server: No such file Request code: 7
Your help appreciated.
