Here is what I'm struggling with... I have a file called 1000.wek I would like to rename it to 1001.wek on 28/10/2008 and 1002.wek on 29/10/2008 and 1003.wek on 30/10/2008 and 1004.wek on 31/10/2008 <THEN SKIP SAT AND SUN> and 1005.wek on 03/11/2008 and 1006.wek on 04/10/2008 and 1007.wek on 05/10/2008 and 1008.wek on 06/10/2008..... My first attempt is something like this: (I huge batch file with a table from a spreadsheet) if %date%="28/10/2008" ren f:\radio\week\1000.wek if %date%="29/10/2008" ren f:\radio\week\1001.wek if %date%="30/10/2008" ren f:\radio\week\1002.wek if %date%="31/10/2008" ren f:\radio\week\1003.wek I did something like this with 1 line. Obviously I have to sort out some errorlevel thingy to skip to the next line or something. I have not looked into that yet. Are you able to help with this please? This is on XP.

"1005.wek on 03/11/2008 and 1006.wek on 04/10/2008 and 1007.wek on 05/10/2008 and 1008.wek on 06/10/2008....." Can we assume that 04/10 is a typo and should be 04/11 ? If so, it may boil down to 'increment num every weekday. ===================================== If at first you don't succeed, you're about average. M2

Here is what I did to utilize the code you already supplied in 2007 ::== runtoday.bat @echo off setLocal EnableDelayedExpansion ::old program data ::set /p refDATE=enter date to compare in format: YYYYMMDD ::call :now ::if !refDATE! lss !today! echo don't run ::if !refDATE! geq !today! echo run ::Johns Insertion call :now ::This is the spreadsheet data if !today! geq 20081028 ren f:\radio\week\*.wek 1016.wek if !today! geq 20081029 ren f:\radio\week\*.wek 1017.wek if !today! geq 20081030 ren f:\radio\week\*.wek 1018.wek if !today! geq 20081031 ren f:\radio\week\*.wek 1019.wek if !today! geq 20081103 ren f:\radio\week\*.wek 1020.wek if !today! geq 20081104 ren f:\radio\week\*.wek 1021.wek if !today! geq 20081105 ren f:\radio\week\*.wek 1022.wek if !today! geq 20081106 ren f:\radio\week\*.wek 1023.wek .............(shortened to keep you from falling asleep) if !today! geq 20100923 ren f:\radio\week\*.wek 1513.wek if !today! geq 20100924 ren f:\radio\week\*.wek 1514.wek if !today! geq 20100927 ren f:\radio\week\*.wek 1515.wek if !today! geq 20100928 ren f:\radio\week\*.wek 1516.wek if !today! geq 20100929 ren f:\radio\week\*.wek 1517.wek if !today! geq 20100930 ren f:\radio\week\*.wek 1518.wek goto :eof :now :: use debug/BIOS to get DATE into vars ::== @echo off > d.d >> d.d echo E 0100 B4 2A CD 21 B4 4C CD 21 >> d.d echo N DAY.COM >> d.d echo RCX >> d.d echo 8 >> d.d echo W >> d.d echo E 0100 B4 2A CD 21 88 F0 B4 4C CD 21 >> d.d echo N MONTH.COM >> d.d echo RCX >> d.d echo A >> d.d echo W >> d.d echo E 0100 B4 2A CD 21 89 C8 B4 4C CD 21 >> d.d echo N YEAR.COM >> d.d echo RCX >> d.d echo A >> d.d echo W >> d.d echo E 0100 B4 2A CD 21 88 D0 B4 4C CD 21 >> d.d echo N DAT.COM >> d.d echo RCX >> d.d echo A >> d.d echo W >> d.d echo Q debug < d.d > nul del d.d dat for %%a in (1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ) do if errorlevel %%a set dat=0%%a for %%a in ( 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31) do if errorlevel %%a set dat=%%a echo Date %dat% day if errorlevel 0 set day=Sunday if errorlevel 1 set day=Monday if errorlevel 2 set day=Tuesday if errorlevel 3 set day=Wednesday if errorlevel 4 set day=Thursday if errorlevel 5 set day=Friday if errorlevel 6 set day=Saturday echo Day %day% month for %%a in (1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ) do if errorlevel %%a set month=0%%a for %%a in ( 10 11 12) do if errorlevel %%a set month=%%a echo Month %month% year if errorlevel 215 set Year=2007 if errorlevel 216 set Year=2008 if errorlevel 217 set Year=2009 if errorlevel 218 set Year=2010 echo Year %Year% set today=%year%%month%%dat% echo Today is %today% for %%c in (day month year dat) do del %%c.com ::== done I'm really grateful for this code. I just generate the if statements in a spreadsheet.