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I want to do echo only checking the date from one file with forfiles:

forfiles /m "C:\Backups\TEST.bak" /c "cmd /c echo test" /d -1

But it returns me an error:

The System cannot find the file specified.

And that file it exists and the directory is correct.

If use forfiles in the same directory (without file) it works fine:

forfiles /p "C:\Backups" /c "cmd /c echo test" /d -1

What am I doing wrong?

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forfiles /p "c:\Backups" /m "test.bak" /d -1 /c "cmd /c echo @fdate @ftime"

/p needs a folder to start searching

/m needs a file mask to indicate what to search

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And If I want to do a callback, What I should do?
@mac94, sorry, I don't understand the question. Please, can you explain what do you want to obtain?
I would like to replace the echo and to do a callback. In my batch file call to :end.
And if I use with /d -1 I will check if the file has more than one day.
@mac94, you can't do it. The code is running in a separate cmd instance that knows nothing about the target label in the current batch file. Maybe there are other solutions, but comments are not a good place to include requirements and expose solutions. Can you start a new question?
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The problem is that forfiles requires a directory as parameter. You are giving it a file instead. This won't work.

Instead you should do this:

FOR %%a in (C:\Backups\TEST.bak) DO SET FileDate=%~ta

This will store the file's modifed date in %FileDate%.

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Sorry, the : from the path was in my code, but not in the post.
I want to use the forfiles because with that I can check if the file has more than one day.

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