Hello all is there anyway to sort lines in a text file (eg. sorting lines to 1-9 a-z) by a batch file? thnx

I'm not sure it's what you want, but the virtual DOS has a sort command. It will sort the lines in a file by the first letter. To use it go to the command prompt and type something like the following: sort "c:\folder name\filename.txt" > "c:\folder name\sorted.txt" One line.

This is my sorter. It does what you want but doesn't redirect STDOUT to a new file. ::==sorter.bat @echo off if "%1" == "" ( goto :_syntax ) else ( goto :_sort ) :_sort if not exist %1 ( echo %1 could not be found goto :eof ) rename %1 %1.bak sort < %1.bak > %1 del %1.bak goto :eof :_syntax echo USAGE: %0 filename goto :eof "Computer security." — Oxymoron

sort < myfile > newfile ===================================== If at first you don't succeed, you're about average. M2