I have a directory in which I need to rename files, somedays there may be 5 files with different filenames otherdays there may be 15 files with different file names. The filenames will change everyday as they have a date/time stamp appended to the file name. It doesn't make a difference which file gets renamed REPFILE.001 or REPFILE.002.I would rather not have to hard code the individual filenames into the batch file I would like for it to do something like a dir /b and then pass that as a variable or something and then do either a rename or move file. So if a dir /b gives output of something like CAT87P21_080821_143212 CAT45P21_SIS_080821_142332 CAT32P21_SIS_0808021_164322 Take that information and then do a REN CAT87P21_080821_143212 REPFILE.001 REN CAT45P21_SIS_080821_142332 REPFILE.002 REN CAT32P21_SIS_0808021_164322 REPFILE.003 and so on. Any suggestions or good information on writing batch files would also be appreciated. Thanks Lance

Save the script as REP.BAT then type REP Folder_Name (e.g. Rep C:\MyFolder\MySubFol) and enjoy (blanks not allowed!). @Echo Off Set Count=0 For /F %%A in ('Dir /B %~f1') Do Call :RN %~f1 %%A Set Count= Set Ext= GoTo :EOF :RN Set /A Count=%Count%+1 Set Ext=%Count% If %Count% lss 100 Set Ext=0%Ext% If %Count% lss 10 Set Ext=0%Ext% Ren %1\%2 REPFILE.%Ext% GoTo :EOF

SWEET!!!!! That worked fantastic thanks a lot, my final code looks like this @ECHO OFF CALL c:\folder\mat.bat c:\folder\receiving CALL c:\folder\rep.bat c:\folder\reports --------------- ECHO Please insert Receiving disk in drive A: and --------------- PAUSE CD "C:\folder\receiving" :loop1 DEL a:\*.* /Q MOVE RECFILE.* a: IF ERRORLEVEL 1 ECHO Please insert next disk IF ERRORLEVEL 1 PAUSE IF ERRORLEVEL 1 GOTO loop1 --------------- ECHO Receiving Files have been copied --------------- PAUSE ------------------ ECHO Please insert Report disk in drive A: and ------------------ PAUSE CD "C:\folder\Reports" :loop2 DEL a:\*.* /Q MOVE REPFILE.* a: IF ERRORLEVEL 1 ECHO Please insert next disk IF ERRORLEVEL 1 PAUSE IF ERRORLEVEL 1 GOTO loop2 --------------- ECHO Report Files have been copied --------------- PAUSE The reason I put call in there twice is I needed to change the file names in the receiving and reports folder. I also changed the DIR /B to DIR /B /OS in order to sort out by the size, that way if files 1-10 fit on the floppy but 11-14 were too large but 15 fit on there I wouldn't have 1-10 and 15 on 1 floppy and 11-14 on another. Once again thanks for all of the help

Having a little problem with error handling, sometimes when I do the download I don't have any recfiles but have the repfile. right now when I run it I will get the error A duplicate file name exists, or the file cannot be found. Please insert next disk Press any key to continue . . . This loops on and on as it should, however I thought if I introduced a IF ERROR LEVEL 2 GOTO loop2 it would work. Not the case, though. How can I define and if error level no files to copy and if error level disk is full? I'm not sure how to do this, I thought maybe I could do a set error level but I'm not sure how I could do this. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks Lance