I want to get the foldername of the profiles on a pc in a variable to check if there exist a specific folder. The problem is I get spaces at the beginning and the end of the var like: " c:\winnt\profiles\all users " " c:\winnt\profiles\uli " ... That means I can't work with it. Deleting all spaces is not possible cause of the all users folder. Here is my not really working code: @echo off cls FOR /d %%A in (c:\winnt\Profiles\*) do call :sub1 %%A goto :eof :sub1 set PROFIL=%* echo "%PROFIL%" :eof thanks in advance for any help uli

Hi uli, not sure why you get spaces. My structure is different, but this works: @echo off for /f "tokens=* delims=" %%A in ('dir /s/b/ad "\Documents and Settings\all*"') do ( echo %%A ) ===================================== If at first you don't succeed, you're about average. M2

Thanks for your quick help M2, your solution works perfect as long as I don't call a procedur. Then it is nearly the same effect. " foldername" Seems to be a Bug in NT4. I want it in a procedur cause I delete a folder in every profile and want to analyze an errorcode for a logfile. uli

Hi uli, Post your code. ===================================== If at first you don't succeed, you're about average. M2

M2, you pointed me in the right direction: :-) This seems to be the solution: for /f "tokens=* delims=" %%A in ('dir /s/b/ad "c:\winnt\Profiles\.folder"') do call :sub1 %%A goto :eof :sub1 set folder=%* set folder=%folder:~1% rd /s /q "%folder%" if "%errorlevel%" == "0" (echo %folder% erased >>log.txt)

Hi uli, Yeah, we're left wondering if it's an NT4 bug. NOTES: When testing for errorlevel you can skip the == and simply use: if errorlevel X do More important, in your case, note that an errorlevel test will resolve TRUE if the errorlevel is EQUAL OR MORE. So a test for errorlevel 0 will always be true. What you probably want here is: if not errorlevel 1 echo it worked ===================================== If at first you don't succeed, you're about average. M2

Hi M2, thanks for the errorlevel advice. Helped to avoid one of these little "uli" bugs in my script. I am a bit in a hurry cause of this project. (The profile thing is just a little part...) uli