Is it possible to sort text within files where it parses two lines at once. Input: def 456 abc 123 ghi 789 Normal Output: 123 456 789 abc def ghi Needed Output: abc 123 def 456 ghi 789 Thanks.

If there wont be a zero, you can do this. pseudo code: For every line in the file ( Set /a expr=line-from-file if expr == 0 (output the line to numbers.file) else (output the line to text.file) ) find out line counts of both files, example - for /f "delims=: tokens=2" %%a in ('find /c /v "" numbers.file') do set numbercount=%%a Similarly find lines of the text file. Now, for /l %I in (1,1,smaller of the line count) do ( for /f "skip=%I" .... and read Ith line from both the file and output to target file. Go out of this for loop after processing Ith line. ) -- Holla.

Fortunately it does have a same string in the beginning. type 2.txt | findstr /i /n "Name:" >> 2a1.txt type 2.txt | findstr /i /n "Age:" >> 2b.txt type 2a1.txt | sort /+17 >> 2a.txt for /f "tokens=1-2 delims=]" %%a in ('type 2a.txt') do (echo %%a]%%b >> file.txt) && (type 2b.txt | findstr /i "\%%a]" >>file.txt) "Line Count" was the magical word. Thanks a Lot.