All, I was trying to using a find DOS command on a file and want results in a way such that. Say I have a file Test.txt as follows PERU M008 JAMES DOG JAPA M007 ROMES PIG I am using the command: find "PERU" Test.txt > Testout.txt Testout.txt will have PERU M008 JAMES DOG But my result should return M008 JAMES DOG without "PERU" Could you please help me on this.

If it's a single line, you can get it to a variable instead of a file, and you can take out the first 5 characters from it: for /F "tokens=*" %%S ('FINDSTR "PERU" test.txt') do set string=%%S set string=%string:~5% But it it will be more than that, you'd better replace the string PERU for no string at all, on the file itself. Read my faq: FAQ #19 - Replace a string on a file automatically -- Leonardo Pignataro - Secret_Doom -- secret_doom@hotmail.com www.batch.hpg.com.br ____________________________________________________________________________