Very simple: I'm trying to extract particular lines from a small text file. Ideally using the Windows command line to take lines 1 and 10 from one text file and output them to another text file. Thanks!

Is there any specific word or pattern that identifies each line (that may be different for the first and tenth line)? If so the job is straightforward, otherwise not so simple.

If you want to use a perl command, this would be very easy. C:\>perl -ne "print if($. == 1 || $. == 10)" c:\src.txt >> dest.txt

FM strikes again ;) If you prefer a batch, try this: ::====Keep1&10.bat @echo off if %1'==' echo which file? && goto :eof set /a lineNUM=1 for /f "tokens=*" %%L in (%1) do call :keeper %%L goto :eof :keeper if %lineNUM%==1 echo %* if %lineNUM%==10 echo %* set /a lineNUM+=1 goto :eof :: DONE If at first you don't succeed, you're about average. M2