Hello I am trying to create a batch file that will "add" a line to my hosts file so that our server can resolve. Since it will be for more then just me I want to make sure that the batch file creates a backup if their original hosts file then copies and adds a line to a new one. Is this possible? If so can anyone help me? -Copies existing hosts file renames with.bkp as a backup -adds / creates new hosts file with contents of original + one added line to resolve server Currently I have this :::1st part tells NT what date format I want::: @echo off FOR /F "TOKENS=1* DELIMS= " %%A IN ('DATE/T') DO SET CDATE=%%B FOR /F "TOKENS=1,2 eol=/ DELIMS=/ " %%A IN ('DATE/T') DO SET mm=%%B FOR /F "TOKENS=1,2 DELIMS=/ eol=/" %%A IN ('echo %CDATE%') DO SET dd=%%B FOR /F "TOKENS=2,3 DELIMS=/ " %%A IN ('echo %CDATE%') DO SET yyyy=%%B SET date=%mm%%dd%%yyyy% RENAME "C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts" hosts.bkp_%date% MKDIR "C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts" echo echo DONE Backing up CACHE and creating a new empty CACHE! echo @pause which only renames existing file with .bkp and a time stamp then it creates a "Folder" rather then the actual hosts file. or would it simply be easier to remote in and manually edit the file? hello hello hello, is there anybody in there...

"hello hello hello, is there anybody in there..." just nod if you can hear me You don't need to REN; you need to COPY. And you don't need to MD a directory named HOSTS. If you do you can't have a FILE called HOSTS. ============================================= @echo off & setLocal EnableDelayedExpansion pushd "C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts" copy HOSTS HOSTS.bkp >> HOSTS echo 192.168.1.11 somedomain.com #PRE ===================================== If at first you don't succeed, you're about average. M2

I have made some changes to my file it now reads @echo off MKDIR "C:\_bkup\HostsBkup" COPY "C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts" C:\_bkup\HostsBkup echo echo DONE Backing up and Editing Hosts echo and I need to learn how to add lines to the hosts file after my copy hello hello hello, is there anybody in there...

sorry about the late reply I left work before I rcvd that yesterday thank you for your help. I will test these changes and let you know how they turned out. hello hello hello, is there anybody in there...