I am trying to add line numbers to a text file through a batch. any thoughts? I have this: SET /a count=0 FOR /f %%f in (%1) DO CALL :countLines %%f GOTO :showLineCount :countLines @ECHO %count% SET /a count+=1 GOTO :end :showLineCount ECHO %count% :end But i'm wanting to add the number to the beginning any give text file, not just count the numbers

What I am thinking is parse each line of your text file to a new file for each of them, while adding %count% before each line. Then type all those files to your main file, then do something like del line*.txt to get rid of the files created from this file. crappy OEM comptuers...

So, I almost have what I am needing. Here is what I am working with now. It counts, skips the first line, and types...but only the first word of the file. --------------- SET /a count=0 FOR /f "TOKENS=* skip=1" %%f in ('type %1') DO CALL :countLines %%f GOTO :end :countLines @ECHO %count% %1 SET /a count+=1 GOTO :end :end --------------- Using the text: Mary had a little lamb Its fleece was white as snow And every where that Mary went The lamb was sure to go here is what I get 0 Its 1 And 2 The It's not typing the entire line, just the first word.

What's wrong with findstr /n ".*" <whatever>

if you can download and install gawk for windows here..: http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/pac... save the below as script.awk NR>1{print NR-1":"$0} on the command line: c:\test> more file Mary had a little lamb Its fleece was white as snow And every where that Mary went The lamb was sure to go c:\test> gawk -f script.awk file 1:Its fleece was white as snow 2:And every where that Mary went 3:The lamb was sure to go

ghostdog...that is exacly what I was needing. gawk.exe is not dependant on anything else, and it did the job perfectly. the purpose of the batch was to ping server or workstation names within a file and give me a final output in a csv like this 0, machine name, ip 1, machine name, ip 2, machi....... thnx a mill...

Razor2.3 the format isn't condusive for what i was trying to do.