Hi all! I want to get the free space and I know there are loads of topics already. I have read through them. I just wanted to know if something like this would work. Please take a look. Thank you. dir c:\|find /i "bytes free" >> set space= You see I want to set the variable "space" without creating a temporary file on my hard drive.

I have this but as you see it creates a file called 1.txt There must be a way @echo off & cls dir c:\|find /i "bytes free">> 1.txt setlocal enabledelayedexpansion for /f "tokens=* delims=" %%A in (1.txt) do ( set line=%%A set line=!line:~26,-11! echo.!line!) del 1.txt & pause>nul

Where is everyone today? for /f "tokens=3" %%a in ('dir c:\ ^|find "bytes free"') do set space=%%a

Hi R2, I'm off to a bit of a slow sttart. ===================================== Helping others achieve escape felicity M2

Thank you Razor2.3, exactly what I wanted. How do you write your answers in a different font?

Look at the html for this page. In firefox: ctrl-u ===================================== Helping others achieve escape felicity M2

Thanks M2 will do