Hi, I have a directory called C:\Bankfiles. Each day this directory is populated with new .txt files. The file names are never the same since these are validation reports, and thus generated by the bank. One day a file name could be jgh10042.txt and the next day it could be ght44589.txt. Here is what I want to do. Search inside all of these .txt files in C:\Bankfiles for customer number "TDCUST022" and whichever file contains this search string, copy it to a folder called C:\CustFound. So far I have tried the DOS Find command: Find /c "TDCUST022" C:\BankFiles This produces the following: D:\BatTest>find /c "TDMAR10202" D:\Battest\*.txt ---------- C:\BankFiles\JKH47226.TXT: 0 ---------- C:\BankFiles\JOH43285.TXT: 0 ---------- C:\BankFiles\JOH55272.TXT: 1 So as you can see, the last file (JOH55272.TXT) is the file I want to copy to C:\CustFound. How do I do this ?

This should do it: for %%? in (C:\Bankfiles\*.txt) do (     FIND "TDMAR10202" < %%~fs? > nul     if not errorlevel=1 (         copy %%~fs? C:\CustFound         goto fend     ) ) :fend -- Leonardo Pignataro - Secret_Doom -- secret_doom@hotmail.com www.batch.hpg.com.br