Hello, I have the next problem that i can't resolve: I need to read a file in a batch file (.bat)execution. For each line of that file I need to execute a command. (Can anybody help me?? Regards Sergio. fisico

One can invoke another batch file with the CALL command. Or to just go to that other batch, just use it's name as a line. Best

Hi!! Sorry by i can not understand you. I am going to explain better my problem: 1) I have a batch file call 'init.bat' and i have other text file call 'del.txt'. 2) In 'del.txt' i store the file's name that i want to delete: For example 'del.txt' could store: file1.txt file2.txt file3.txt 3) I execute 'init.bat' and i want to read 'del.txt', after read each row i want to execute the command : delete <file> 4) then my execution should be: - execute 'init.bat' - for each row in del.txt execute delete <each row> end for My questions are: who can i read each line of my del.txt?? who can i store each line of my del.txt and then execute other command with that value?? Kind Regards Sergio fisico

About your first question How (I suppose who is a typo) can I read each line of my del.txt (and execute a del command)? the answer is For /f "tokens=* delims=" %%a in (del.txt) Do Del %%a About your other question that is not clear to me, please explain better what you mean.

Hello again!! Your solution was fantastic for me. Thank you very much. (Forget my second question!!!) But know i have other different problem: I want to execute more than one command for each file's row. In your answer (thank you again) For /f "tokens=* delims=" %%a in (del.txt) Do Del %%a I can only execute one command (del) Is it posible to call a method with each row as a parameter and then execute differents commands ??? Example: For /f "tokens=* delims=" %%a in (del.txt) CALL a method XXX Where XXX is the method i want to use the value of each row) command 1 command 2 ... command n If i can not call a method, is it posible to execute more than one command??? Kind Regards. fisico

Yes, it is possible and you have two choices First - rewrite the For to execute a "block sequence", i.e. For /f "tokens=* delims=" %%a in (del.txt) Do ( Command1 %%a ....... CommandN %%a) where %%a is each row of your text file. A block sequence is a list of commands embedded between (...) each command holding one line.. Second - use an internal subroutine (much like a "method"), i.e. For /f "tokens=* delims=" %%a in (del.txt) Do Call :Method %%a ....... ......- :Method Command1 %* ....... ....... CommandN %* GoTo :EOF where :Method (with the leading :!) is the internal subroutine (Call on the same line holding For), %* is the row it refers (%%a in the For tail) and :EOF is the standard return point to not be declared as it is built in NT batch interpreter. I hope I have explained in a clean way, if you need more help post again or mail me.

i have a question regarding this...i'm using a similar concept to make another script. But all the method calling etc is that done in the txt file or in the .bat file?