hello guys ! we have load of metrics reports generated since 6 months , the thing is that the metrics contain .html and .png files in them. now time has to come to sort out the metrics. step -1 -- i want to now identify those old .html and .png by dates and sort them by dates and then keep them relevant date folders. then after that step-2 -- i want to put those relevant dated files according to date in a folder according to date and zip them every week and delete the unzipped ones. i am successful in step 2 , but i am getting up stuck at step 1 as i am not sure how to read read past dates of a file(.html and .png) using batch file programming , i am basically a sas programmer. i am struggling to get solution since 1 month , can any of you people please pull me out of this problem . your help is greatly appreciated. thanks , sunny

If you have your metrics files in, let's say, c:\files and below that you have one folder for each month, cleverly named 01 ~ 12, try this: =============================== @echo off & setLocal EnableDelayedExpansion pushd c:\files for /f "tokens=* delims= " %%a in ('dir/b *.html *.png') do ( set datetime=%%~Ta set MM=!datetime:~3,2! echo move %%a !MM! ) ================================= NOTES: You will need to tweak 'set MM' to your date layout. As written, it doesn't *DO* the MOVE; it just prevoews it. ===================================== If at first you don't succeed, you're about average. M2