Thanks a lot Mechanix2Go but i need something that deletes only the first 4 blank lines of each text file...

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Hi, We're still not quite clear. Can you send me a couple of the files? If at first you don't succeed, you're about average. M2

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Hi Carl If the first 4 lines are blank and these are to be deleted but you want to keep any blank lines after this, try this on some dummy text files for safety. @echo off for %%a in (*.txt) do ( type %%a | find /n /v "~" > ~Temp1.dat type nul > ~Temp2.dat for /f "skip=4 tokens=1,* delims=[]" %%c in (~Temp1.dat) do ( if "%%d"=="" ( echo. >> ~Temp2.dat ) else ( echo %%d >> ~Temp2.dat) ) del %%a type ~Temp2.dat > %%a ) del ~Temp?.dat

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THANKS dtech10!! Your batch file is working perfectly!!!Thanks a lot!

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Hi alastor27 Something I forgot to mension that the line type %%a | find /n /v "~" > ~Temp1.dat If there's a "~" in your files that line will be deleted. If there is, change the "~" to another charactor that you know will not be in any of your files.

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Hi alastor27 Glad it worked ok. Something I forgot to mension that the line type %%a | find /n /v "~" > ~Temp1.dat If there's a "~" in your files that line will be deleted. If there is, change the "~" to another charactor that you know will not be in any of your files.

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Hi dtech10, Im having no luck with your bat. Original: ##################### EUR Euro GBP United Kingdom Pounds CAD Canada Dollars AUD Australia Dollars JPY Japan Yen INR India Rupees NZD New Zealand Dollars CHF Switzerland Francs ZAR South Africa Rand AFN Afghanistan Afghanis ALL Albania Leke DZD Algeria Dinars ARS Argentina Pesos AUD Australia Dollars BSD Bahamas Dollars ###################### result: ###################### CAD Canada Dollars AUD Australia Dollars JPY Japan Yen INR India Rupees NZD New Zealand Dollars CHF Switzerland Francs ZAR South Africa Rand AFN Afghanistan Afghanis ALL Albania Leke DZD Algeria Dinars ARS Argentina Pesos AUD Australia Dollars BSD Bahamas Dollars BHD Bahrain Dinars BDT Bangladesh Taka BBD Barbados Dollars BMD Bermuda Dollars BRL Brazil Reais ############ They're bigger, but that's the interesting part. If at first you don't succeed, you're about average. M2

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Hi Mechanix Computers who'ed buy such a tempermental devices. Are you recieving error message's are you not sure how it works.

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Hi dtech10, No errors. Here's the before & after on a smaller file: ### before EUR Euro GBP United Kingdom Pounds CAD Canada Dollars AUD Australia Dollars JPY Japan Yen INR India Rupees NZD New Zealand Dollars CHF Switzerland Francs ZAR South Africa Rand AFN Afghanistan Afghanis ALL Albania Leke ### end before ### after CAD Canada Dollars AUD Australia Dollars JPY Japan Yen INR India Rupees NZD New Zealand Dollars CHF Switzerland Francs ZAR South Africa Rand AFN Afghanistan Afghanis ALL Albania Leke ### end after Looks like it removes the first 4 lines regardless of whether they are blank or non-blank. If at first you don't succeed, you're about average. M2

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Hi Mechanix This would do the trick. @echo off setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion set Count=0 for %%a in (*.txt) do ( type %%a | find /n /v "~" > ~Temp1.dat type nul > ~Temp2.dat for /f "tokens=1,* delims=[]" %%c in (~Temp1.dat) do ( if "%%d"=="" ( set /a Count=!Count!+1 if !Count! GTR 4 echo. >> ~Temp2.dat ) else ( echo %%d >> ~Temp2.dat ) ) del %%a type ~Temp2.dat > %%a ) del ~Temp?.dat setlocal

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Hi dtech10, Yup, except the last line needs to be endlocal. Thanks. If at first you don't succeed, you're about average. M2

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I am trying to remove all the blank lines in a file but am having trouble with the first set since it's replacing all my blank lines with "Echo is off." So I guess the blank lines are gone but this isn't what I had in mind.

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