Hi, I need some help with the batch file commands; I have an 'invoice' directory which will have files with below names. IMPORT_INVOICE_FILEfsbc.20080108.0500368 IMPORT_INVOICE_FILEcount.sbc.20080108.0500368 Prefixes in both the files IMPORT_INVOICE_FILEfsbc. , IMPORT_INVOICE_FILEcount.sbc. will always be same, only the timestamp (YYYYMMDD.HHMMSS) varies from day to day files. I would like to copy both these files to a different directory with names like below, just by stripping the prefix (IMPORT_INVOICE_FILE) fsbc.20080108.0500368 count.sbc.20080108.0500368 Any help in this regards is greatly appreciated. Thanks, Anamica

The following batch does the job; replace MY_DIRECTORY with the folder holding the files and NEW_DIRECTORY with the target one. @Echo Off SetLocal EnableDelayedExpansion PushD MY_DIRECTORY For %%j in (IMPORT_INVOICE_FILE*.*) Do ( Set file=%%j Set file=!file:IMPORT_INVOICE_FILE=! Copy %%j NEW_DIRECTORY\!file! ) PopD :: End_Of_Batch

Thank you very much :-) It worked like a charm!