Question

how get the date and time of the last modified particular TYPE file in that directory

let me explain with an example

if i use the command dir *.reo /o:d

i get the all *.reo files in that directory sorted according to the date ..

this is the the last line of the output

29-03-2010 11.31 arun.reo

now i just want to copy the date and time of the last created file in variable or file .is it possible ?

Answer 1

You can do this using a batch file like this:

@echo off
setlocal enableextensions

for /f "delims=" %%f in ('dir *.reo /o:-d /b') do (
  set dt=%%~tf
  goto endloop
)

: endloop
echo %dt%

A little explanation:

• dir *.reo /o:-d /b produces a list of all .reo files in the current directory, sorted by date in descending order (so that the last modified file comes first).
• %%~tf expands to the date of the file specified by the %f variable.