I need my batch file to do something (or not) based on the size of another file. I have a file called c:\myfile.txt and I need a batch file that will read myfile.txt's file size into a variable. I tried doing a dir c:\myfile.txt > text.txt and then reading in that text file but I don't know how to get the filesize only into a variable. Anybody?????

This might do what you want: @echo off cls for /f %%1 in ('dir/b myfile.txt') do ( set filesize=%%~z1 ) echo %filesize%

The process can be simplified further(avoiding the "dir" process): for %%a in ("c:\myfile.txt") do ( set filesize=%%~za ) Batch Variable how to

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