How to append date to directory path in xcopy

Question

I do have a xcopy statement in bat file.. would you please help me to append today\'s date to one of directories in destination xcopy /S /E /I %sourceFolder% \"C:\\Shared\\

Answer 1

Something like this...

for /f "tokens=2-4 delims=/ " %%A in ('echo.%Date%') do set Dest=C:\Shared\copy-%%A%%B%%C
xcopy /S /E /I "%sourceFolder%" "%Dest%"