I have to watch over a bunch of NT machines with each one having certain files located in different locations. Some have the files in C:\ while others have them in G:\ or Z:\ Instead of doing a bunch of if exist statements, can you build a loop to search through all the local drives, locate the file/dir then either use it as a variable or just copy them? In linux it would be something like this: $var='find / -type d inetpub' cp $var /somefolder Thanks

the way I do it, I use "c:\dir *. /s /b>c:\dirs.txt" Then I use a scripting tool like KIXstart to build the loop you're talking about The "instr"-command used bij kix looks for a string in a string, so you can easily find what your looking for Something like this (its not accurate, doing it from the head) Open (1,"dirs.txt") $regel readline (1) while $regel "" If Instr ($regel,"datadir") copy $regel+"\*.*" "destination" $regel readline (1) loop Dowload Kixtart from Kixtart.org