Hi, I am looking for assistance as I have searched unsuccessfully for a script which will run through a directory and delete the first line of text in every txt file. I just can't figure out the coding to undertake this. Grateful thanks to anyone who can help! Dalgetty

@echo off > newfile & setLocal enableDELAYedexpansion for /f "tokens=* delims= " %%a in ('dir/b/a-d *.txt') do ( type nul > newfile for /f "tokens=* skip=1 delims= " %%i in (%%a) do ( >> newfile echo %%i ) copy newfile %%a ) ===================================== Helping others achieve escape felicity M2

Hi M2, This is brilliant! However I omitted to mention that I need the output for each file in the directory to go a separate newfile eg newfile1, newfile2, newfile3 etc. Is that within the capacity of a CMD script? Ever so grateful! Dalgetty