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Renaming a file to match a wildcard result

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I am trying to compress a file using built-in Windows tools. I need to use a wildcard to read the file because the input filename changes slightly each day (to reflect the date stamp). The current batch file that I have found will ZIP up a file based on a wildcard, but it gives the resulting ZIP output file a static name.

I need it to have the exact same name as the input file.

E.g.: if the input filename is blahblahblah02132014.txt, the output filename needs to be blahblahblah02132014.zip.

Please help?

Here is my current script:

set FILETOZIP=C:\Users\<my.name>\Documents\blah*.txt

    set TEMPDIR=C:\temp738
    mkdir %TEMPDIR%
    copy %FILETOZIP% %TEMPDIR%

    echo Set objArgs = WScript.Arguments > _zipIt.vbs
    echo InputFolder = objArgs(0) >> _zipIt.vbs
    echo ZipFile = objArgs(1) >> _zipIt.vbs
    echo CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject").CreateTextFile(ZipFile, True).Write "PK" ^& Chr(5) ^& Chr(6) ^& String(18, vbNullChar) >> _zipIt.vbs
    echo Set objShell = CreateObject("Shell.Application") >> _zipIt.vbs
    echo Set source = objShell.NameSpace(InputFolder).Items >> _zipIt.vbs
    echo objShell.NameSpace(ZipFile).CopyHere(source) >> _zipIt.vbs
    echo wScript.Sleep 2000 >> _zipIt.vbs

    CScript  _zipIt.vbs  %TEMPDIR%  C:\Users\<my.name>\Documents\someArchive.zip

echo Y | del %TEMPDIR%\blah*.*
rmdir %TEMPDIR%

    pause



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