i have made a bat that moves files in a specified folder, and added some registry keys so i can right-click any file and run the bat on it.. but now i need to make the bat search the entire directory to... this is the bat so far: [CODE]@echo off :sets set /A FailSafe=0 set MoveFolder=C:\Documents and settings\all users\desktop\files\ :begin move %1 "%MoveFolder%" if not errorlevel=0 goto FailSafe exit :FailSafe set /A FailSafe=%FailSafe%+1 if %FailSafe% == 5 echo an error, Errorlevel=%errorlevel% & pause & exit goto begin[/CODE] but now i need it to get the directory of the file, and go there, so i can move all files with specific names to (for example *test*) like [CODE] move %1 "%MoveFolder%" cd %InputFileFolder% move *Test* "%MoveFolder%"[/CODE] any idea how i can do this??

Hi This help.. @echo off cd>x.txt set /p Folder=<x.txt echo [%Folder%]

move %1 "%MoveFolder%" cd /d %~dp1 move *Test* "%MoveFolder%"