Thanks in advance the posts on here have been very helpful and I am almost done. I have a directory of text files that were created from a template. Each one has a line that says 1111.pdf. I am need to have a batch file that will take the file name of each text file and replace the 1111 with the filename of the that particular text file. Again any help is appreciated!

"replace the 1111 with the filename of the that particular text file" What is the text file? Does it have the file names in it? Give us an example of what is in the txt file?

Let's say the file is name joe.txt. I want to replace the 1111 in the joe.txt file with joe. The text file is an html file with several lines in it. The lines around where I want to replace are as follows: <object id="PDFObj" data="../pdf/1111.pdf" type="application/pdf" width="100%" height="100%"/>

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This is someones personal webpage, I'm not sure why it is linked as a solution.

@echo off & setLocal enableDELAYedexpansion for /f "tokens=* delims= " %%f in ('dir/b *.txt') do ( type nul > newfile for /f "tokens=* delims= " %%a in (%%f) do ( set S=%%a set S=!S:1111=%%~Nf! >> newfile echo !S! ) copy newfile %%f > nul ) del newfile ===================================== Helping others achieve escape felicity M2

AWESOME!!!! That worked like a champ. Thank you very much!