Hi, Total n00b here when it comes to basic batch scripting, I've attempted to put together a mini batch script that takes a text file and emails it to an address using the 'Blat' cmd line SMTP emailer. Need a bit of help / advice from someone on how to make the script check the text file to see what it’s modified / created date is, and then only email it if the date matches the current day. I.e. if the script runs on Monday 01/01/2008, I want it to check the .txt file to see if it was modified / created on 01/01/2008, if it was continue with the rest of the script, if not then email a separate message stating that no file was found for 'today'. Many thanks for any help (bear in mind I'm still learning all this stuff! ) Copy of the script so far: @ECHO OFF & SETLOCAL ENABLEEXTENSIONS SETLOCAL ------------ REM Configurable settings ------------ SET TX_FILE_FOLDER=C:\order_data SET LOG_FOLDER=c:\logs ------------ REM Get the date and time for filenames and messages ------------ FOR /F "tokens=1-4 delims=/- " %%i IN ('date/t') DO SET TODAYS_DATE=%%i%%j%%k FOR /F "tokens=1-4 delims=:/- " %%i IN ('time/t') DO SET START_TIME=%%i%%j%%k ------------ REM Create a log filename ------------ SET LOG_FILENAME=%LOG_FOLDER%\send_%TODAYS_DATE%.log ------------ REM Log that we've started ------------ ECHO Send started on %TODAYS_DATE% @ %START_TIME% > %LOG_FILENAME% ------------ REM Get the end time ------------ FOR /F "tokens=1-4 delims=:/- " %%i IN ('time/t') DO SET END_TIME=%%i%%j%%k ------------ REM Log that we've finished ------------ ECHO Send finished at %TODAYS_DATE% @ %END_TIME% >> %LOG_FILENAME% ------------ REM Start of email procedure ------------ SET SUBJECT="Email todays order data" SET TOADDRESS=test_sender@test.com SET RECEIPT=NO SET ATTACH=%TX_FILE_FOLDER%\order.txt IF EXIST c:\check_bit.txt GOTO ENDIF SET SMTPSERVER=10.0.0.1 SET FROMADDRESS=test_recipient@test.com c:\blat\blat -install %smtpserver% %fromaddress% -savesettings ECHO %TODAYS_DATE% %START_TIME% > c:\check_bit.txt :ENDIF REM IF "%receipt%"=="YES" SET EXTRAS=-r ------------ REM Send email with attachment ------------ ECHO Sending files.... c:\blat\blat c:\blat\body.txt -subject %subject% -to %toaddress% -attach %attach% ECHO Send complete.

vbscript alternative if you know vbs. Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") Set objFolder = objFSO.GetFolder("C:\temp") GetCurrentDate = FormatDateTime(Date, vbShortDate) For Each myFiles In objFolder.Files If objFSO.GetExtensionName(myFiles) = "txt" Then fileDate = FormatDateTime(myFiles.DateLastModified, vbShortDate) If fileDate = GetCurrentDate Then WScript.Echo myFiles 'send email here. I leave it to you End If End If Next Sub SendEmail(msg) Dim WshShell, oExec Set WshShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell") Set oExec = WshShell.Exec("blat " & msg) 'put your blat command here Do Until oExec.StdOut.AtEndOfLine strLine = oExec.StdOut.ReadLine() WScript.Echo strLine Loop End Sub save the above as script.vbs and on command line c:\test> cscript /nologo script.vbs

Thank you Ghostdog, I will give it a go, unfortunately I know absolutly nothing about VB script. Thanks again,