I made a script that will process numbered files in a folder. I am aware of this "problem" i'm gonna explain. When it runs it uses a for loop to process each file separately. So it starts with file 1 then 10,11,12,13,etc then moves on to 2,20,21 Is there a way to override this so it counts 1,2,3,4,etc It isn't vital to what I'm doing but it would be nice to have them done in order. here is my script for /f "tokens=*" %%x in ('dir /b *.vob') do ( echo %%x "F:\Encoding\Programs\megui\tools\dgindex\DGIndex.exe" -AIF=[%%~nx.vob] -IA=7 -TN=80,81 -OM=1 -OF=[%%~nx] -hide -exit ) FYI it extracts audio from vob files and makes an avs script and dv2 project file. I'm batch encoding a dvd here.

I know this may not be possible(or convenient), but leading zero's on the first 9 files may help.

That could work for future use. another mostly unrelated question I have also is there a way to remove quotes and file extensions from a full file name? I have a set /p var= then i drag a file onto the batch window and the location and name of the file are entered. The problem is if there are spaces in the location/name there are quotes when it's entered, if there are no spaces there are no quotes. how can i remove the quotes if present and file extension? so "F:\hey you\text.txt" would be F:\hey you\text and F:\hey\text2.txt would be F:\hey\text2

The below has a couple of limitations. Firstly if a file is not supposed to have a extension but a dot 4 or 5 characters in (depending on if it had quotes or not) it will be trimmed off. Var has to be defined to clear the second line as I couldn't get it to take quotes on the outside. if not defined var goto :eof if [^%var:~0,1%]==[^"] set var=%var:~1,-1% if "%var:~-4,1%"=="." set var=%var:~0,-4%

Thanks Judago That works perfectly and I don't see any problem with it. My files have nice name and 3 digit ext names. Guess that's the end of this thread. I love quickly resolved threads, even though one is just playing the system

'dir /b *.vob' Not obvious how that would give ANY ordering. But I'll stay tuned. ===================================== If at first you don't succeed, you're about average. M2

"'dir /b *.vob' Not obvious how that would give ANY ordering. But I'll stay tuned." The dir command always seems sort it's output 0-9/a-z by default unless another sort order is specified (/o), the fact that *.vob is specified means that it will only output files that end in .vob in a sorted order. This is just my experience though, I don't know if it's the same everywhere.