Does anyone know of a method to copy files from a list stored in a text file? It could be a Command Prompt like: c:\ copy < source_files.txt c:\destination I suspect their is some type of 'redirect' option to force the reading of a text file for input to the 'source' side of the copy operation, but I haven't found anything. Thanks in advance. Kevin System Consultant

using a command such as your example, you'll make a copy of the actual text file, and put it in the destination directory. thats a great question. It would be made into a batch file, perhaps that would work. with some stuff like @echo off copy *.* c:\destination :end make a batch file. name it what ever you want.bat have your target files somewhere (a:drive?) tell the batch file copy a:\*.* c:\destination inside the batch file. sounds close to me. good luck.

Perhaps a variant of 'For.. In.. Do' for %%x (file1,file2,file3) do copy c:\target %%x but to get the list of files into the brackets with commas .... not so sure, but might be worth exploring

What you need is a file text replace tool. I use one called FR which you can find on http://www.openinformationsystems.com/provalov/tony/ So you can could enter the following commands (or create a batch file): -- c: dir /s/b > copyme.dat fr copyme.dat c: "copy c:" copyme.bat d: c:copyme.bat -- So this would replace all the 'c:' text with 'copy c:' into a another batch file called copyme.bat, which you could then run from a directory, which would then copy all the files in the copyme.dat text file over! The copyme.dat file would look like: c:\winnt\system32\ansi.sys And after it's been FR'd it'd look like: copy c:\winnt\system32\ansy.sys You can't add a drive letter to the end of the line though, which is why you need to run it from another drive or directory. Hope this makes some sense.. PorkChops aplenty