Hello.. need ur help. Every day at 8:00 we get one file in d:\tmp\ with file name as test1.dat*** (*** are some random numbers) now I want to search for a todays test1.dat*** file from that folder. That folder allready contain many old test1.dat*** files. And I dont want to use any temp file to store results. could pls suggest me way for this.

::Find all the files made today in a folder @echo off & setlocal enabledelayedexpansion for %%f in ("d:\tmp\*.*") do ( echo "%%~tf" | find "%date%" > nul if !errorlevel! EQU 0 echo %%~tf %%~zf "%%~ff" )

@echo off & setlocal enabledelayedexpansion for %%f in ("d:\tmp\*.*") do ( echo "%%~tf" | find "%date%" > nul if !errorlevel! EQU 0 echo %%~tf %%~zf "%%~ff" ) Dont understand how it works.. could you please explain me in short. I was thinking of a FIND command with dir some thing like dir test1.dat* | find /c "current date" this will return me the value 1 if we have file today. but I am not able to store this value in variable. and i dont want to use a file to store this value.

Thanks got to know how it works... this is solution that i asked for... many thanks.