I am aware that I'm about to ask what is to all of you the most dumb question you've seen here but for the sake of learning I'm going to do it. The more I use the FOR command the more uses I find for but,can any one give me a real life scenario of how to use the FOR /L command, other than making the commmand prompt count from 1 to 1000 really fast I do't see how I would use it in real life. I warned you it was dumb. Thanks in advance.

In a batch file which uses the set command it can be very useful. SET /p you=Do you like cheese? y/n IF /I %you%==n ECHO you suck I only Batch if possible, 2000 more lines of code, oh well.

Well first of all let me say that couldn't agree more with your statement. Second of all I could acomplish that without FOR /L Like this SET /p you=Do you like cheese? y/n If %you%==n ECHO You Suck! I thought it would have to do with like a counter so that I can say run this loop for n times then do/stop etc. Thanks.

AJ, Couple of places where I found it useful is 1. To rename files that have sequential numbers - needs to mass renamed. for /l %i in (1,1,9) do if exist animie*%i* ren animie*%i* animations%i.mpg 2. Get a series of files from the web.\ for /l %i in (1,1,9) do wget ftp://ftp.site.com/filename.part0%i for /l %i in (9,1,99) do wget ftp://ftp.site.com/filename.part%i you get the idea. [edited with examples later] -- Holla.

Thanks Holla.