I want to create directories and put files within it. for example I've files in c:\temp as follows. Bookmark_CZOL446H2202_0101_0003_Regulatory.pdf Bookmark_CZOL446H2202_0101_0008_Regulatory.pdf Bookmark_CZOL446H2202_0302_0004_Regulatory.pdf Bookmark_CZOL446H2202_0302_0005_Regulatory.pdf Bookmark_CZOL446H2202_0302_0006_Regulatory.pdf Bookmark_CZOL446H2202_0801_0003_Regulatory.pdf Bookmark_CZOL446H2202_0801_0011_Regulatory.pdf what I want to do is.. create directory 0101 from file Bookmark_CZOL446H2202_0101_0003_Regulatory.pdf and put this file with new name 0003.pdf in it. so directory 0101 will have 0003.pdf & 0008.pdf files in it. for file Bookmark_CZOL446H2202_0302_0004_Regulatory.pdf directory name should be 0302 and file name 0004.pdf. so directory 0302 will have 0004.pdf 0005.pdf & 0006.pdf etc.

I don't think you can do that only with a BAT file. You'd probably have more luck trying to do something with C. Anyway, in C a function to extract both names from the original name would be something like: --------------- #include <dir.h> #include <string.h> int extract_names(const char orig[], char fldr[], char fname[]) { char *substr, tmp[MAXPATH], ext[MAXEXT]; /* copies the original to a buffer so that we can modify it */ strcpy(tmp,orig); /* extracts the original extension */ fnsplit(tmp,NULL,NULL,NULL,ext); /* skips the last '_' */ substr = strrchr(tmp,'_'); if (!substr) return 0; /* finds the second last '_' */ substr = strrchr(tmp,'_'); if (!substr) return 0; /* saves the file name */ strcpy(fname,substr+1); /* adds the extension */ strcat(fname,ext); *substr = '\0'; /* finds the third last '_' */ substr = strrchr(tmp,'_'); if (!substr) return 0; /* saves the folder name */ strcpy(fldr,substr+1); return 1; } --------------- This should extract the destination directory and the destination file name from the orginals, just create a "findfirst/findnext" loop, extract the names and do the copying.

It's doable with a Windows XP Command Script, but not from a DOS batch file.