Hello, I'm not sure this is the right section, because I need this script to work on XP, but batch programing is somewhat more DOS realted. So I'm looking for a batch script which deletes certain lines from a file. To be exact: I made a file which add 2 new lines to /windows/system32/drivers/etc/hosts. An example: 1.2.3.4 www.asite.com 1.2.3.4 www.anothersite.com Let's say this is the "installer" of something. Now I also need an "uninstaller", which remove these lines. My first idea was to make a backup of the file and then restore it at the uninstall but other lines, added later would also lost. Thank you in advance.

If there are just 2 lines of interest and you have them in a text file named added, try this script below. You could extend it some but if there were a whole slew of lines it would get unweildy. ========= remove2.bat @echo off & setLocal EnableDelayedExpansion for /f "tokens=* delims= " %%a in (added) do ( set /a N+=1 set v!N!=%%a ) find /v "!v1!" < hosts | find /v "!v2!" > hosts.new ===================================== If at first you don't succeed, you're about average. M2

Thank you, will try it soon!