How to download to new folder with today date

KJ88
Joined:: 2023-06-30
Posts:: 1

How to download to new folder with today date

2023-06-30 03:08

Hi,

I'm new to WinSCP and to scripting so please forgive my lack of knowledge.

I have created a .bat file to automatically download several files from an FTP server. I have added this .bat file to Windows Task Scheduler so it will run several times each day.

Now I would like to know how to add a function to my .bat file that creates a new folder with the current date and time, then downloads the files into the newly created folder.

My .bat file currently looks like this:

"C:\Program Files (x86)\WinSCP\WinSCP.com" ^ 
  /log="C:\Users\xxxxxx\WinSCP.log" /ini=nul ^
  /command ^
    "open ftp://anonymous:anonymous%%40example.com@ftp.com.au/" ^
    "cd /xxx/xxx/xxx/xxx" ^
    "lcd ""C:\Users\Data""" ^
    "get xxxx1.nc.gz" ^
    "get xxxx2.nc.gz" ^
    "get xxxx3.nc.gz" ^
    "exit"
set WINSCP_RESULT=%ERRORLEVEL%
if %WINSCP_RESULT% equ 0 (
  echo Success
) else (
  echo Error
)
exit /b %WINSCP_RESULT%

Is there a way to have this same script create a new folder with today date and time in C:\Users\Data and then download the files there?

Many thanks

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martin◆ Site Admin
Joined:: 2002-12-10
Posts:: 40,605
Location:: Prague, Czechia

Re: How to download to new folder

2023-07-03

WinSCP script cannot create local folders. You have to create the folder in the batch file, before you start WinSCP. But you can use WinSCP %TIMESTAMP% syntax to generate the folder name.
See Formatting Timestamp in Batch File.
So something like this:

set TIMESTAMP_FORMAT=yyyy-mm-dd
 
for /F "tokens=* USEBACKQ" %%F in (
    `winscp.com /command "echo %%TIMESTAMP#%TIMESTAMP_FORMAT%%%" "exit"`
) do set TIMESTAMP=%%F
 
set TARGET_PATH=C:\Users\Data\%TIMESTAMP%
mkdir %TARGET_PATH%
 
"C:\Program Files (x86)\WinSCP\WinSCP.com" ^ 
  ...
  /command ^
    ...
    "lcd ""%TARGET_PATH%""" ^
    ...

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