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Okay, looking at SS64.com's FINDSTR page I put the following together: @echo off set _outputfolder="D:\A Folder\A Subfolder\Test Folder" echo. echo %_outputfolder% @findstr /r /b /c:"-*|" %_outputfolder%\*.csv echo. echo errorlevel: %errorlevel% @pause And when I run that my output is this: "D:\A Fo...

That's correct.

Thanks, penpen. Apparently, I should have been more specific about what's in my file! The text in the files will look very much like the following: Name|Address1|Address2|City|State|Zip|ID ----|--------|--------|----|-----|---|-------- John Smith|10 Fourth Avenue SE||Some City|MN|12345|82X9Z43 Mary ...

Thank you for the clarification, Squashman. I admit I'm terribly new to batch scripting, so I probably should have divulged that information!

You're right, as a VB.NET programmer, I understand the need to keep localization in mind.

Below is a batch script I put together when I was learning how to work with dates and times for a project. It breaks down all of the parts of the date and time and shows how the parts can be put in variables and worked with in various ways. @echo off @setlocal enabledelayedexpansion echo. echo Syste...

I just spent an hour and a half Googling how to do what I need to do, but everything I read doesn't explain the syntax of what's going on. I'm just not getting how to do this. I need to delete the second line from all CSV files in a folder. The folder will be in the form of a variable, "%OUTPUTFOLDE...