Howdy... What I am trying to do I belive is rather simple. I have several files called talk#.# and I need to append the same text string and/or text file to each of them. The format of the file talk#.# : Where the first '#' is the channel number which exists in a range of 0-9999 where the second '#' is the user number which exist in a range from 1-999 ... The first number '#' isn't really important but I need to be able to change the script to allowe anything in the feild. Its the last number '#' thats the problem. I need to be able to append every file that is named (i.e) talk0.* The problem with this is I never know which users will be using the notification system and I have no way to pass there numbers to a list for this system. Is there anyway to append a string of text and/or a text file to every file in a dir with a simaler name? It seems I did this years ago but I have tried everything I can think of and I still can't make it work. Any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. My thanks any advance for any help that can be offered. -Borneo

This will do the trick for %f in (talk*.*) do copy %f+textfile.txt %f this is for command line, if placing into .BAT file, it would be for %%f in (talk*.*) do copy %%f+textfile.txt %%f