Hi All, I'm monitoring log files of testcases. I have a batchfile for processing these logfiles and in this batchfile, I have implemented to dump all filenames to a testfile: "dirlist.txt". I'm trying to implement a solution where the batchfile will only process the files that are NOT in the "dirlist.txt". I have tried to find someting like following: for /f "tokens=* delims= " %%a in ('dir/b "C:\Scripts\Mercury\Logs\TE_*.log"') do ( if %%a not in ("C:\Scripts\Mercury\dirlist.txt") ( commands.... ) I have tried using various 'find' statements, but I cannot get it solved. Agan, any help will be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance! Igor

for /f "tokens=* delims= " %%a in ('dir/b "C:\Scripts\Mercury\Logs\TE_*.log"') do ( find "%%a" < C:\Scripts\Mercury\dirlist.txt > nul if errorlevel 1 echo commands.... ) ===================================== If at first you don't succeed, you're about average. M2

not really sure what you are doing, but findstr can take in wildcards as filenames. findstr /M "test" *.txt the above command finds all text files that have "test" in them. Check findstr /? for more info. Also, the /D option might be interesting for you.