Hi, I need a batch application that would check a folder, find the files that has been modified after the last batch run and display the modified file names in a text file. Please somebody hellp me on this.

You may use xcopy /m That is, your displaymodified.bat would look something like: md c:\tempdir xcopy /m C:\sourceDir C:\tempdir > c:\Dirlist.txt del /q c:\tempdir After copying, it resets archive attributes. So when invoked second time, only the files with archive attribute set is copied. c:\Dirlist.txt will contain the list of files copied. -- Holla.

I like Holla's suggestion. I can offer an optimization. There's no need to do the copying, but just use dir /aa to list all files with the archive attribute set, and attrib -a to turn off the archive attribute. Then there's no need to create & delete a temporary folder either.

@echo off > modfile setLocal EnableDelayedExpansion for /f "tokens=2 delims= " %%a in ('attrib *.* ^| findstr /b "A"') do ( echo %%a >> modfile ) attrib -a -s -h -r *.* > nul ===================================== If at first you don't succeed, you're about average. M2

Hi all, Thanks for your your help. Now i have a different problem. When i build the files there are few file that will be built everytime. so how do i identified onlythe changed ones. Is there a way??

klint, I was thinking hard with xcopy /m, /l, etc. Forgot about dir /a* . This often happens with me, forget some obvious solutions and use a long solution where a diminutive :-) one would do. Is it only me? Is it more in batch programming? Aarya, Before the build, run attrib -a *.* and after the build list the dir with dir /aa this would give you the list of files that were newly created. -- Holla.