I got good to know about how to search into the file(Topic : Dos script to search into .txt file) but now I want to ask u one more question about file search. Team , I want to ask u some more in this. " for %%f in ("*.txt") do ( echo "%%f" | find %%f /c "<reply>done</reply>" if !errorlevel! EQU 0 set /a count=count+1 )" Using this code I am able t count the file where I have this lines. But now I want to count the files where I dont have this code. Like := <reply>done</reply> is the Positive reply state. But when we have error (-ve state) during that time we get <reply>NOT DONE</reply> or <reply>The error information</reply> So understand when we have error I am planing to search inside the file for error message... but its not a common .. so I cant put that into the search string pattern. So I am planing to scan the files which DONT HAVE this lines. <reply>done</reply>. I dont know how to do this?? Could you please help me on this

It might help to say which OS. ===================================== If at first you don't succeed, you're about average. M2