Hi. I need to remove the first (or 2) blank lines in around 2000 txt-files. I've found and tried this: @echo off setLocal EnableDelayedExpansion if exist *.new del *.new for /f "tokens=*" %%A in ('dir /b *.txt') do ( set NAME=%%~nA set fileNAME=%%A for /f "tokens=*" %%L in (!fileNAME!) do ( echo %%L >> !NAME!.new ) ) But it removes ALL empty lines in the txt-files. It's songs, and there is 1-2 empty lines first, then a verse, an empty line, verse 2 and so on - and I need the empty lines between verses, but none at the file-top. Is it possible to delete only the first line ? (And maybe check if it's blank before - gives the possibility to run the files again to remove the blank lines in the files with 2 empty lines). Thanks, Soren from Denmark.

@echo off > newfile & setLocal EnableDelayedExpansion for /f "skip=2 tokens=1* delims=[]" %%a in ('find /v /n "" ^< myfile') do ( if "%%b" neq "" ( echo %%b >> newfile ) else ( echo. >> newfile ) ) ===================================== If at first you don't succeed, you're about average. M2

Thanks ! Works fine (on 1 file at a time). Can't figure out how to make it take all *.txt files in a directory, process (delete first line) and save in original (or new) file-name. Any ideas are much appreciated ! Can't figure out what the "if "%%b" neq "" -line is doing ? Thanks for your help.