Hi, Could you guys help me make a batch file which will replace an entry in the text file - coming from an environment variable? Basically it'll just replace the username and password: <user username="SYSUSER" password="sysuser00"/> coming from the environment variable %username% Can anybody here help me? Thank you!

MYFDILE contains: ====================== line one USERNAME PASSWORD line three ====================== The script: @echo off > newfile & setLocal EnableDelayedExpansion set user=joe set pass=abc for /f "tokens=* delims= " %%a in (myfile) do ( set str=%%a set str=!str:USERNAME=%user%! set str=!str:PASSWORD=%pass%! echo !str! >> newfile ) ===================================== If at first you don't succeed, you're about average. M2

wow! thank you Mechanix2Go! will try out this one right away =)

Thanks Mechanix2Go, I have tried your script and it worked. I'm just stuck at two parts: This is what my script now looks like: @echo off > newfile.txt setLocal EnableDelayedExpansion set user=abc set pass=def for /f "tokens=* delims= " %%a in (c:\file.txt) do ( set str=%%a set str=!str:USERNAME=%user%! set str=!str:PASSWORD00=%pass%! echo !str! >> newfile.txt ) If it's not too much of a bother, could you help me with these =( 1.) The variable PASSWORD, isn't just PASSWORD, it's PASSWORD00 (with two zeros after). Even if I do set str=!str:'PASSWORD00'=%pass%! or set str=!str:"PASSWORD00"=%pass%! it will still show up as def00. How can I make the whole thing just 'def'? 2.) The output of the file is newfile.txt, but I really need it to have the same name as its input file - "file.txt". Please help me, I'm lost in the world of scripting.

I don't know why you're using quotes, but it works as posted. set str=!str:PASSWORD00=%pass%! As to file name, end with: copy newfile c:\myfile ===================================== If at first you don't succeed, you're about average. M2

thanks! gosh i didnt know what i was thinking - i was on the zone - i keep on thinking of complicated things for my #2 that i forgot that a simple 'copy' would suffice X-(

it worked on you =( it won't work on me: here is my file: <?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?> <tomcat-users> <role rolename="wamusers"/> <role rolename="cisusers"/> <role rolename="nmsusers"/> <role rolename="mwmusers"/> <role rolename="tomcat"/> <role rolename="role1"/> <role rolename="manager"/> <role rolename="bausers"/> <role rolename="admin"/> <user username="SYSUSER" password="sysuser00" roles="cisusers,admin,manager"/> <user username="tomcat" password="tomcat" roles="tomcat"/> <user username="role1" password="tomcat" roles="role1"/> <user username="both" password="tomcat" roles="tomcat,role1"/> <user username="SPLSLK" password="SPLSLK12" roles="cisusers,admin,manager"/> </tomcat-users> and here is my batch script: @echo off > newfile.txt setLocal EnableDelayedExpansion set user=jgalaura set pass=jgalaura for /f "tokens=* delims= " %%a in (c:\batch\tomcat-users.xml) do ( set str=%%a set str=!str:SYSUSER=%user%! set str=!str:sysuser00=%pass%! echo !str! >> newfile.txt ) copy newfile.txt c:\batch\tomcat-users.xml ---------- with or without the quotes it still won't work on me. *sigh*