I have a text file with one line of text [may contain multiple words] that I need to 'read' back into my batch file as a variable. This variable is the directory where the user's IE Favorites will be copied to. Here is what I have and it doesn't work. set copydir=<"%USERPROFILE%\category.txt" xcopy "%USERPROFILE%\Favorites" "%~dp0%copydir%\" pause The user's profile path and copydir path may have names with spaces thus the need for the quotes [I think] Help please! Jesus is the Rock - ROCK ON!

What is this trying to do: "%~dp0%copydir%\" ===================================== If at first you don't succeed, you're about average. M2

If it's only one line: set /p copydir=<"%USERPROFILE%\category.txt" If it's not then you could use the for /f command with skip, a counter, an if statement, ect. The folowing for command will set the last line of the text file: for /f "usebackq delims=" %%g in ("%USERPROFILE%\category.txt") do set copydir=%%g On another note %~dp0 will give you the path of the batch file so I presume category.txt contains directory names only and they are below the location of the batch file. If this is so you should only have to specify: "%copydir%\" And yes you will need quotes on file and directory names containing spaces for most tasks, cd/chdir is one that doesn't.

Works like a charm. Thanks. It seems like I am always off just enough to make it not work. ;-) Jesus is the Rock - ROCK ON!