I have seen many posts and they helped me alot, still I am facing a basic issue. I am working on Win XP. I need a to create a batch file which takes inputs from a txt file, say var1_address = D:\abc\some_address var2_address = D:\xyz\some_address var3_address = machine_name\path var4_address = another_machine_name_path\some address I want to take input from any of these paths and perfome below tasks Ren var1_address *.zip del var3_address\filename.zip Problem: 1. I am unable to take all different addresses. 2. If I am able to take different inputs then I am unable to perform rename, delete kinda operations. Please help me ASAP. Thanks Sunny

Im not certain I follow.... I will try to help if you explain... Are the Commands stored in the Files? Or are you trying to perfom multiple tasks to different files, based on file name.... Please bear with me, I am a horrible communicator, especially when its through text. I only Batch if possible, 2000 more lines of code, oh well.

Its ok. Thanks for giving your time. Actually, I will write my commands in 1 batch file and take input of the path names from a txt file. For example, I will take remote machine name of server1 from text file name's variable "variable1" and perform command "ren variable1\*.* *.zip" So path only includes folder name that could be of a remote machine or local drive. Am I able to understand my problem in better manner?

[1 If you want to set vars you need to use SET. [surprise] [2] If you want to set var1 using the contents of one.txt: set /p var1=<one.txt [3] That will set var1 to the FIRST line of one.txt. [4] You will want to be very careful with spaces in your SET because things can get very messy, very fast. ===================================== If at first you don't succeed, you're about average. M2

this will set to the 1st line only what if I have data in following format of txt file : var1_address = D:\abc\some_address var2_address = D:\xyz\some_address var3_address = machine_name\path var4_address = another_machine_name_path\some address Now how will I get each variable in batch file to be used in commands? Plz help

The last line is just to show wht was done. =========================================== @echo off & setLocal EnableDelayedExpansion for /f "tokens=* delims= " %%a in (my.txt) do ( set %%a ) set v ===================================== If at first you don't succeed, you're about average. M2

Environment variable testing_location not defined Environment variable v not defined These are the errors I am receving. testing_location is the variable name. testing_location = \\machine_name\folder_name Sorry I am bothering you guys alot.