How to Create a File with Date in Name Using PowerShell

To create a file with the current date in its name in PowerShell, you can use the New-Item cmdlet to create a file if it doesn’t exist and the Get-Date cmdlet to retrieve the current date and format it.

The following method shows how you can do it.

Method 1: Create a file with the current date in its name

# specify the file path
$filePath = "C:\temp\log\my_log.txt"

# Get the current date and format it as dd-MM-yyyy

$currentDate = Get-Date -Format "dd-MM-yyyy"

# append the current date to the file name
$filePath = $filePath + "_" + $currentDate

# create the new file

New-Item -Path $filePath -ItemType File

This example will create a new file if it doesn’t exist.

Create a File with the Current Date in the Name

You can use the New-Item cmdlet in PowerShell to create a new file with its -ItemType parameter set to the “File“. The command checks if the file exists and creates if not.

# specify the file path
$filePath = "C:\temp\log\my_log.txt"

# Get the current date and format it as dd-MM-yyyy

$currentDate = Get-Date -Format "dd-MM-yyyy"

# append the current date to the file name
$filePath = $filePath + "_" + $currentDate

# create the new file

New-Item -Path $filePath -ItemType File

Output:

In this PowerShell script, the $filePath variable stores the path to the file you want to create. The $currentDate variable stores the current date in the format “dd-MM-yyyy“. It then appends the current date to the $filePath variable.

Finally, the New-Item command creates a new file at the specified location $filePath.

Conclusion

I hope the above article on creating a new file with the current date in its name in PowerShell is helpful to you.

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