is there a way with windows command line to list all the files from a specific directory and then select the name of the file that has the newest creation date.
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is there a way with windows command line to list all the files from a specific directory and then select the name of the file that has the newest creation date.
Thank you
This iterates through a directory listing and sets an environment variable to each file in order by date; the last one set would be the newest file:
Then you could copy the file like so:
Based on the solution found here.
EDIT: I also got the
%%I was unexpected at this timeerror when executing this directly through the command prompt, but it worked fine from within a batch file. You could create a batch file with the above and it should work.