I'm horrible when it comes to writing bat files, and was hoping someone out there might be able to help. I'm looking for a bat file that will work as follows. The file format: ????###.asc ex: ????324.asc Looking to have the bat file run, and then prompt the user for a date, ie. 324. Once the user inputs the date, the bat file looks for the files ????324.asc and copies them to another directory. Can anyone help? Thanks in advance!

If I understand, the following script is what you need: @Echo Off If %1.==(). GoTo EXEC Echo Parametric Copy Echo. Cmd /V:On /C Call %0 () Echo. Echo Copy Ended GoTo EXIT :EXEC Set /P PCFrom=Enter Directory From: Set /P PCTo=Enter Directory To: Set /P PCPar=Enter ###: If not exist !PCFrom!\Nul GoTo ERR If not exist !PCTo!\Nul GoTo ERR Copy !PCFrom!\????!PCPar!.asc !PCTo! GoTo EXIT :ERR Echo Error in From/To Directories GoTo EXIT :EXIT The only limitation is blank characters embedded in pathnames. I hope this helps

Thank you Ivo. I'm working with it now. Getting some errors at the end with it not finding the files. Not sure if it's a path problem or not, but I'll at it. Thanks again!