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Posted: **12 Feb 2011 13:10**

Hi i'm trying to extract 10first lines of from a text file and paste it at the beginning of an existing file.
i try this code but when it pastes data it just deletes the existing data .
how could i modify this code?

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@echo off & setLocal enableDELAYedeXpansion

set N=
(for /f "tokens=* delims= " %%a in (myfile) do (
  set /a N+=1
  if !N! gtr 10 goto :done
  echo.%%a
)) > some.txt
:done

Thank you

Posted: **12 Feb 2011 13:43**

Try that

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@echo off & setLocal enableDELAYedeXpansion

set N=
(for /f "tokens=* delims= " %%a in (myfile) do (
  set /a N+=1
  if !N! gtr 10 goto :done
  echo.%%a
))>tmp.txt
:done
copy /b tmp.txt + some.txt tmp2.txt
move tmp2.txt some.txt
del tmp.txt

Regards
aGerman

Posted: **12 Feb 2011 15:54**

Hello,

thanks a lot
it's working fine.

Dominion

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