Hi to everyone, I'm new here and rookie to dos/batch files. I'm having a little difficulty with a project in my university. All i have to do is make a file/routine that will automaticaly rename a folder depending on the system's date. I don't need hour just the date (Day_Month_Year). For example, if i have a folder with my incoming e-mail the batch will be able to rename it to "inbox_d_m_y" My dos version is 5.1.2600 Thanks for your time. zorak1083

check out the help for "for" loops > for /? you can use this : for /F "tokens=1,2* delims=/ " %i in ('date /T') do @echo %i %j %k to get the day, month, year. for renaming of files, use ren

As I said in my reply to this msg when it was first posted in another forum, nothing much will get done without knowing the DATE layout. ===================================== If at first you don't succeed, you're about average. M2Go