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Greetings: You forgot the colon in your goto statment Example: currently "GOTO SHOWDOCS" should be "GOTO :SHOWDOCS" another problem is with your conditionals Example: currently "IF %F%=="Y" GOTO SHOWARCH" should be "IF "!F!"=="Y" GOTO ...

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This should get you started

Take a look in the "DOS Batch - Date and Time" area on this site. Lots of good stuff about "Using date and time functions in DOS."

http://www.dostips.com/DtTipsDateTime.php

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for /F loop with dir path\*.dll /N
Process each line looking for the unique signature IE: .dll in your usecase
if found then
cheery pick the size field from the line
set /a totalsize+=filesize
endif
endfor


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Give tee (Unix util that forks stdout between the console and a file) a try. Yes it has been ported to DOS/Winblows.

Google is your friend

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The "FOR" could be done in a "Do....While" but not quite as efficiently. The "IF: is a pretty basic conditional statement. You could use unary operators but then your code is much less easy to read and understand.

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Greetings: Give this a try Tested with WinXP Pro U:\Batch-Variables>modstring "nrel=0" 0 1 Modified: "nrel=0" to: "nrel=1" ============================================== @echo off :: modstring.bat :: :: arg %1 = String to modify :: arg %2 = String to find :: arg %3 = Re...