Dear All, I have a setup which requires me to remove 2 files from 20 folders every day and let them get regenerated each morning. After the month-end I need to merge them all together. My files are in the following location: \\server\survey\a\1.txt \\server\survey\a\2.txt \\server\survey\b\1.txt \\server\survey\b\2.txt etc. I need 1.txt and 2.txt at O:\survey\%date%\ Is there an easy way to do this? And yes, 1.txt and 2.txt files should be merged while being copied there. Thanks for any help, I am trying to do this with a batch but it would not take the wildcards. Ben

For starters, you won't have much luck with a dir named %date% as it will often contain illegal chars; / \ : to mention a few. Beyond that, do you want to merge al the 1.txt and merge all the 2.txt separately or all 1s and 2s together? ===================================== If at first you don't succeed, you're about average. M2

Hi thanks for picking this up. The %date% is set up to produce a DD-MM-YYYY string, no illegal characters there. I use this variable in many of my scripts. All the 1.txt's should go to one file and the 2.txt's into another file, producing 2 files all together at the end. Thanks a lot, Ben

:: merhe all 1.txt and 2.txt :: not tested ; I don't have a network @echo off & setLocal EnableDelayedExpansion pushd \\server\survey for /L %%a in (a b c d) do ( type %%a\1.txt >> O:\survey\%date%\1.txt type %%a\2.txt >> O:\survey\%date%\2.txt ) ===================================== If at first you don't succeed, you're about average. M2

Hi, Unfortunately this does not work, it ends up in a continuous loop, dont know why. I am going to write the script manually, there will be 40 lines but still doable. Thanks a lot, Ben