I’m trying to making a batch file that replaces a word with another in a file(s!) that containing the word. By using Edlin program. And to use edlin so req. it ^Z (Ctrl+Z) as a breaker between old text and the new text, but that’s no problem. It’s the end-of-line char that’s the problem when I use echo! This batch is meant to run on a windows 2000 machine. Exec: Batchfile searchfile oldtext newtext Z file is containing the end-of-file char. (^Z) so I can create the 1Roldtext^Znewtext line to use with edlin. @echo off Setlocal echo %2>tmp #must remove the end-of-line (CR/LR) from this file in order for this to work. echo %3>tmp1 copy /b tmp + z + tmp1 edlin.rep >Nul echo E >> edlin.rep #in order to quit edlin. For /f “” %%a IN (‘dir /s %1 ’) DO For /f “” %%b IN (‘find “%2” %%a’) DO edlin %%b <edlin.rep &del %%b.bak #Not finished... del tmp&del tmp1&del edlin.rep Edlin.rep #with end-of-line... 1Roldtext ^Znewtext E Must be: then it will work. 1Roldtext^Znewtext E And I don’t know how to work with Debug so I’m stuck and I’m out of ideas. Please help me!

This might help, it requires Debug but it's simple to create. Paste the text below into notepad not the dividing lines ie ------- and save, name as oneline.txt. Go to the command prompt and type debug < oneline.txt to create oneline.com Use this syntax in you batch file. It works like echo but there is no CR/LR at the end. oneline Copy to > temp.txt echo Filename >> temp.txt temp.txt now containts "Copy to Filename" on one line. n oneline.com a 100 mov ah,2 mov si,82 mov,dl,[si] cmp dl,d jz 113 mov ah,2 int 21 inc si jmp 105 mov ah,4c int 21 r cx 17 w q --------------

dtech10, That's pretty slick I'm not sure exactly what Saldor needs, but I thought it was to replace one word with another in a file. If so, I recommend CHANGE.COM from PC Magazine for files up to about 30K, and CHANGE.exe from Bruce Guthrie for files of any size. HTH M2

Hi Mechanix Thanks for the praise.