Hello, I am new to windows scripting. Pardon me and forward me to right URL if this has been posted before. I tried but was not ale to find the required one. Here it goes. i have iis logs generated in three servers with file name as exyymmdd.log. for generating acccess report using logParser for certain days like between 1st january to 7th january my input to the batch will be as analyselogs.bat 070101 070107 Now i need to copy the sevendays file to the local server under the names as server1_070101 ....070107 server2_070101 ....070107 server3_070101 ....070107 How do i do it? Please suggest Thanks and Best regards Carl Carl Lewis Sajjan

Thing i think i need to make clearer is i need to add copying the files part of script into the batch script i am giving input to. Carl Lewis Sajjan

Try this: ::== 8.bat @echo off setLocal EnableDelayedExpansion if %2'==' echo need Start and End date && goto :eof set S=%1 set E=%2 for /f "tokens=* delims= " %%A in ('dir /on/b x\*.log') do ( set C=%%~nA if !C! geq !S! , if !C! leq !E! echo copy %%A server1_%%A ) :: DONE ===================================== If at first you don't succeed, you're about average. M2

Thanks Mechanix2Go I figured it out cause of your help. My working code looks like this.... ------------- @echo off setLocal EnableDelayedExpansion if %2'==' echo need Start and End date && goto :eof set S=%1 set E=%2 for /f "tokens=* delims= " %%A in ('dir /b E:\*.log ') do ( set C=%%~nA set Q=!C:~7,6! if !Q! geq !S! , if !Q! leq !E! copy %%A server1_!Q!.log ) ------ Carl Lewis Sajjan

Cool; glad you made it work. ===================================== If at first you don't succeed, you're about average. M2