Hello, I am kindly looking for a batch file that will do the following. 1. I have a list of 10 PC names in a text file (pcnames.txt) 2. I want to ping every PC name in the list 3. If the ping fails then put the failed PC name into a text file (failedping.txt) 4. If ping succeeds then remove a directory on the success PC (ex. rmdir c:\VNC /s /q) Thank you, X.

Not tested ::=============================== @echo off > failedping.txt setLocal EnableDelayedExpansion for /f "tokens=* delims= " %%a in (pcnames.txt) do ( ping %%a | find "Reply" > nul if errorlevel 1 (echo %%a >> failedping.txt ) else ( echo rd //%%a/c:/VNC /s /q ) ) ===================================== If at first you don't succeed, you're about average. M2

Thanks M2, I really appreciate it. Minor tweaking of the RD command on the last line, and it works PERFECTLY: @echo off > failedping.txt setLocal EnableDelayedExpansion for /f "tokens=* delims= " %%a in (pcnames.txt) do ( ping %%a | find "Reply" > nul if errorlevel 1 (echo %%a >> failedping.txt ) else ( rd \\%%a\c$\VNC /s /q ) ) ----- Thanks again, I feel honored to be helped by the Master M2! X.