I want to copy a file IF it's newest with swtich /d with a message to user like ECHO New file copied. Is there any errorlevel that can tell me whitch file that is newest?

The only way (short of finding documentation) I know of to discover errorlevels is the batch commands and analyze the results @echo off xcopy *.* c:\temp /switches echo.%errorlevel% You can even get fancy and feed variables.

XCOPY returns 0 even if the date comparison fails. However, FIND returns errorlevel 0 only if there's a match. I have used the following batch file code with success: ========================================== @echo off rem copy the file if newer and rem send stdout to file xcopy /d /f newfile c:\>c:\Chk.txt if errorlevel 1 goto XERR rem trap copy error above, otherwise rem test for the absence of "0 Files copied" find "0 File(s) copied" c:\Chk.txt if not errorlevel 1 goto END rem stuff to do goes here... goto END :XERR echo Error copying file! echo Error:%errorlevel% :END

These are the only errorlevels and they don't include one that is date-specific as the original poster had asked (however, the 3rd party util XXCOPY might handle dates with an exit code, but I didn't look). XCOPY ERRORLEVELS: 0 - All files were copied without errors 1 - No files were found to copy (invalid source) 2 - XCOPY was terminated by Ctrl-C before copying was complete 4 - An initialization error occurred. Such an error would generally caused by insufficient memory or disk space, or invalid drive name (invalid target) or syntax. 5 - A disk-write error occurred.