Hey, Thanks for viewing this post, I'm wanting to replace the top line of myfle.bat, only the top line and nothing else, but it has to remove the whole top line and replace it =) thanks

@echo off & setLocal EnableDelayedExpansion for /f "tokens=* delims= " %%a in (myfile) do ( set /a N+=1 if !N! equ 1 ( echo suzi q > newfile ) else ( echo %%a >> newfile ) ) ===================================== If at first you don't succeed, you're about average. M2

Thank you very much, I've seen you post alot and each time its fixed the problem, id like to say your a awesome person =) anyways thanks again =)

if you want batch(XP,Win2k), you can achieve it in 3 lines c:\> echo the_new_line > newfile.txt c:\> more +2 file >> newfile.txt c:\> ren newfile.txt file

Hey M2, you File only removes the top line. It doesn't do anything else. so shouldn't it go.... @echo off & setLocal EnableDelayedExpansion ECHO new top line>newfile.txt for /f "tokens=* delims= " %%a in (o.txt) do ( set /a N+=1 if !N! gtr 1 ( echo %%a >> newfile.txt ) ) I only Batch if possible, 2000 more lines of code, oh well.