I am trying to read the last 5 or 10 lines of text from my backup_log.txt file and output it to a file...so far it works but only prints the last line. @echo off for /f "tokens=*" %%a in (backup_log.txt) do set LastLine=%%a echo %LastLine% I am new to the FOR statement. Any ideas? Thank you,

Hi Stan, This was submitted by IVO a couple weeks ago: ::*************************** @Echo Off :: COUNT.BAT Syntax: Count #_of_lines FileName Output_File Echo. If %2.==. Echo Missing source file & GoTo :EOF If not exist %~f2 Echo File %~f2 not found & Goto :EOF If %3.==. Echo Missing output destination & GoTo :EOF Echo Extracting last %1 lines from %~f2 into %~f3 If exist %~f3 Del %~f3 For /F "tokens=3 delims=:" %%A in ('Find /V /C "#~#" %~f2') Do Set RN=%%A Set /A SN=%RN%-%1 If %SN% leq 0 Echo Too many lines [File contains %RN% lines] & GoTo :EOF Echo Skipping %SN% lines from %RN% For /F "tokens=* skip=%SN% delims=" %%A in (%~f2) Do Echo %%A>> %~f3 Set RN= Set SN= ::***************** M2 If at first you don't succeed, you're about average.

M2, Wow, Days of hair pulling all solved by IVO. Thanks for the post. Stan