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Windows command-line: create a file with the current date in its name

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Problem

I'm trying to create a zip file from a batch script. I need it to be named like archive_.zip Unfortunately, this doesn't work on systems with the date formatted like y/m/d because of the slashes: The variable expands to something like I have access to the gnuwin32 package, so I could use, say, to r…

Error Output

zip some_options "archive_%DATE%.zip"

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