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Your feedback is much appreciated ghostmachine. I have come across python before but only played with some very basic functions (i remember some kind of game where you had to solve riddles using python to progress to the next web page?). I will certainly try installing Activestate and the excel modu...

Thanks for your response ghostmachine.. I did suspect such a complex task may have been beyond the scope of batch files. If I decided to use python for example, what would I have to have installed on my local machine & server for it to run?.. I ask because the server is on AIX and I don't know i...

Hi aGerman thanks for your response. In reply to your first question the log files are formatted e.g. ainslie.igs.27112010.log. I suppose you could count back 7 days from the current date and select those files somehow? I'm not sure I understand your second question regarding the DIR command? Do you...

Hi Guys, I'm pretty much a noob to all this batch file business. Anyways atm I have a bat file that effectively uses ftp to pull off some log files.. however these log files are in a bad format to read clearly. :1 cd U:\hc\server ftp -i -s:serverftp.txt goto end the serverftp.txt file has the comman...