Hi, I am trying to get echo drive >drive.txt to put the word "drive" into the drive.txt without the space and new line after it ?? I am trying to get "drive" on the first line of the text document with nothing after it !! Please, any help would be very much appreciated. Fight Crime, Shoot Back !

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No can do without external commands. ::================== @echo off > d.d >> d.d echo e 100 "set myvar=" >> d.d echo n setmyvar.bat >> d.d echo rcx >> d.d echo a >> d.d echo w >> d.d echo q debug < d.d ::===================== ===================================== If at first you don't succeed, you're about average. M2

Ok, I copied M2's code into a test batch file and ran it with different things in the "" space. @echo off > d.d >> d.d echo e 100 "j" >> d.d echo n drive.bat >> d.d echo rcx >> d.d echo a >> d.d echo w >> d.d echo q debug < d.d gave j¿Œ™‹÷ƒÆ‹ as the output. But this... @echo off > d.d >> d.d echo e 100 "set drive=" >> d.d echo n drive.bat >> d.d echo rcx >> d.d echo a >> d.d echo w >> d.d echo q debug < d.d gave set drive= with no spaces or anything after it !! Exactly what I am after except for the single drive letter. It would be perfect if set usbdrive=j @echo off > d.d >> d.d echo e 100 "set drive=%usbdrive%" >> d.d echo n drive.bat >> d.d echo rcx >> d.d echo a >> d.d echo w >> d.d echo q debug < d.d where set drive=j is the output string !! Is it possible ?? Thanks Fight Crime, Shoot Back !

Well... almost. The point of using debug is to create a file without a line break. So you can: copy file1+file2 file3 and have it all on one line. [That's what you asked.] But if you've got %usbdrive% set you can simply: echo set drive=%usbdrive%>some.bat But we're going in circles. I'll let you decide which thread to continue this in. ===================================== If at first you don't succeed, you're about average. M2

More details on how to create a "line fragment" can be found here: http://www.ericphelps.com/batch/lines/frag-dbg.htm