Hello Ivo, Thanks for your quick response. i will get my source files delivered in folder A in below format Acc_200802051125.txt Acc_200803041258.txt i have a etl routine which will process the job..but the etl routine will fail if it finds more than one file...so i want to move the second file completely to folder B... if i have only one file in folder A then i want to create a empty file in folder b with the same filename as in folder A why i want an empty file to be created because. I may receive one or two files daily....if my etl routine cannot find a file in any of these two folders it will fail so i want to create a empty file with same name as in folder A. And In folder A i will have only .txt files ..i want to move the file from folder A to folder B. please let me know if you have still have any doubt.. Thanks, Padma_priya

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Padma_priya, Since it looks like you do not need to empty the text files just need something there. Empty or not. Perhaps this? @echo off setLocal EnableDelayedExpansion for %%D in (C:\"Your Folder") do ( for /f "tokens=* delims= " %%A in ('dir /b/s %%D\*.txt') do ( echo copy %%A C:\"Your Folder" ) ) pause Take out the echo and pause if what you need. Else wait for IVO as he is very knowledgeable!

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Padma, These kind of things cannot be done in dos scripting...you need to do shell scripting kind of thing. Thanks, Sunitha

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Sunitha, We are not talking DOS, this is XP and its command language is much more powerful and certainly capable of doing this task. In my previous post on another thread here, I said that Windows batch language was not very good at reading files line-by-line. But in this thread, we are not reading the files, we are doing things with them at file level rather than content level.

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As usual, a solution starts ith a coherent problem statement. I still don't know whether ANY means 'any one; doesn't matter which' or 'all files'. And does MOVE mean move? Or COPY? And in which folder does the absence of a second file goof up the process? ===================================== If at first you don't succeed, you're about average. M2

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Hello Mechanix, In folder A there will be only two files at all times...min 1.txt file, max 2.txt files from folder A any one file i need to move...it can be first file or second file any file there is no order that i need to move first file only...i need to have only one file that can be any one of two files. And i need to completely move the file from folder A to folder B. and if i have only one file in folder a i need to create an empty file with same filename as in folder A. Hope this is clear Thanks, Sunitha

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@echo off copy C:\FolderA\*.txt C:\FolderB set counter=0 for %%j in (C:\FolderA\*.txt) do set /A counter+=1 if %counter% equ 2 goto :EOF for %%j in (C:\FolderA\*.txt) do type nul > C:\FolderB\%%~nxj :: End_Of_Batch

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Hi IVO, Thanks for the script. I have executed the script, it is working fine for the second case only i.e if i have only one txt file in folder A,it is creating a empty file with the same name in folder B. But the script is failing for the first case, if i have two txt files,it is coping these two txt files to folder B. But what i required is I need to MOVE any one of the txt file to folder B. Thanks, Padma

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@echo off copy C:\FolderA\*.txt C:\FolderB set counter=0 for %%j in (C:\FolderA\*.txt) do set /A counter+=1 if %counter% equ 2 ( del C:\FolderA\*.txt ) else ( for %%j in (C:\FolderA\*.txt) do type nul > C:\FolderB\%%~nxj ) set counter= :: End_Of_Batch

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Here's my attempt (I've started with Ivo's script and modified it) =========================================================== @echo off setlocal enabledelayedexpansion set counter=0 for %%j in (C:\FolderA\*.txt) do ( set /A counter+=1 if !counter! equ 2 ( move %%j C:\FolderB ) ) if %counter% equ 1 ( for %%j in (C:\FolderA\*.txt) do type nul > C:\FolderB\%%~nxj )

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