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I think I'll stay with the for loops. It's working so that's fine.

findstr /c: Does not work. However, this does work: for /f "tokens=*" %%f in (test.txt) do ( set var1=%%f echo !var1! if "!var1!"=="Brunsbüttel" ( echo FOUND Brunsbüttel!! )else ( echo NOT FOUND AGAIN ) ) But I fear it will take longer processing time than findstr. Is ...

Thanks foxi for your quick reply. I suppose a Babel routine would work. I would need to translate it from German to English, then back when I am finished. Know where I can find such a function, that I can call? Or how do we go about this? Say I have a text file with several German city names within ...

I'm trying to findstr or compare two strings in batch which will contain German words, like: Seebrügge (notice the accent) How do I do this? I know how to write batch, but batch isn't cooperating me with this. I'm searching .txt files for words like Seebrügge. Or comparing variables which may contai...

Perhaps I'm implementing it wrong. I just copy and paste it in a .bat file and then launch it. This is how it is intended. It just opens and closes. Where do I put the pause command? It sounds, like you started it by double clicking the bat file, or similar. You might add a pause between the "...

I'm using WinXP (home and prof, both on actual patch level), too, and it works fine there using NTFS, or FAT32, so i think there must be another issue. penpen Edit: I've found a bug and corrected it, please retry with the changed code above; i haven't tested with empty subdirectories. Perhaps I'm i...

penpen wrote:So how about this JScript (batch/JScript) named "getNewest":

This is telling me dateLastModified is null or not an object. Must be OS specific. I'm using xp.

If last write access defines what you have called the newest file, then this cmd(.exe) shell one-liner should echo you the newest file in the actual directory and all of its subdirectories: @(for /F "tokens=* delims=" %F in ('dir /B /S') do @(echo %~tF#%~dpnxF))|sort /R|findstr /N "^...

If last write access defines what you have called the newest file, then this cmd(.exe) shell one-liner should echo you the newest file in the actual directory and all of its subdirectories: @(for /F "tokens=* delims=" %F in ('dir /B /S') do @(echo %~tF#%~dpnxF))|sort /R|findstr /N "^...

Squashman wrote:Just two nested For Loops. First one gets the directory name. Second one gets the newest file in the directory. Look at the help for the DIR command and use that with the FOR loops.

Perhaps you didn't understand me. I'm looking for the newest file in all subdirectories. That is, one file total.

Find newest file in all subdirectories?

I know this question has been asked before. Could someone post a vbs script or batch that does this. If you do, please tell me how many parameters it takes and what kind. So I know how to execute it.

Thanks.

I was able to do the date. Thanks for your help otherwise.

TBH it's gone a little beyond what is on topic here, where you want everything in a VBS script. There are Usenet VBS newsgroups, and maybe StackOverflow would be another option at stackoverflow.com Or m or m Understood. I guess I'm on my own now. I did fix the script for Name=. Now I just need date...

Its not getting within this statement here for some reason:

The script is still not making edits to the file.

is this the issue then?

if not line = "Name="+line2 then