Hi members, I am trying to convert a unix shell script to dos. It needs to delete all .test files in a directory and write to log file that the command was successful. When there are no files, it should write "no files available" to the logfile. I have this right now: SET DIR=C: SET LOGFILE="C:\test.log" SET DATE=%mm%%dd%%yyyy% echo %DATE% >> %LOGFILE% echo Deleting old .test files > %LOGFILE% echo "" >> %LOGFILE del %DIR%\*.test echo Deleted old .test files > %LOGFILE% I need to add the if else condition. i.e when there are no files available, it should write the same. Any help will be appreciated.

@echo off set drive=C: set logfile=C:\test.log echo.%date% > %logfile% echo.Deleting old .test files >> %logfile% echo.>> %logfile% if exist %drive%\*.test ( del %drive%\*.test echo.Deleted old .test filesfrom %drive%\*.test >> %logfile% ) else ( echo. No files available >> %logfile% ) :: End_Of_Batch First of all use lowercase to improve readibility. Then use the %date% system variable to be NEVER modified. More if you want to delete the *.test files in the root directory AND all the subdirs add the /S switch at the end of the DEL command. By the way this is NT batch nothing to do with DOS (that does not exist in XP).