Oops - forgot to give credit where it is do. This is my favorite DOS refresher site: http://www.robvanderwoude.com/ -----Original Message----- From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of cherie.watts Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 7:49 PM To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [THIN] OT - for statement question Hi Guys I know there are some for statement guru's on the list and I was wondering if you could assist me with some syntax questions. I am trying to run the following command but am having problems. C:\Admin\printing>for /F "usebackq" %i in ('dir /b |find /I "driverlist"') do ec ho %i >>totallist.txt | was unexpected at this time. I understand that the problem is recognizing that ('dir /b |find /I "driverlist"') is not being passed(for lack of a better work) to for command as a complete command. I have often had problems with this feature of the for statement. Is there a way to clearly define/encapsulate the command I want to pass into the for command? I can get around this problem in 2 steps, but it is so much cooler to do it all in memory in 1 step. Thanks Cherie ******************************************************** This Weeks Sponsor RTO Software Do you know which applications are abusing your CPU and memory? Would you like to learn? -- Free for a limited time! Get the RTO Performance Analyzer to quickly learn the applications, users, and time of day possible problems exist. http://www.rtosoft.com/enter.asp?id=320 ********************************************************** Useful Thin Client Computing Links are available at: http://thin.net/links.cfm *********************************************************** For Archives, to Unsubscribe, Subscribe or set Digest or Vacation mode use the below link: http://thin.net/citrixlist.cfm ******************************************************** This Weeks Sponsor RTO Software Do you know which applications are abusing your CPU and memory? Would you like to learn? -- Free for a limited time! Get the RTO Performance Analyzer to quickly learn the applications, users, and time of day possible problems exist. http://www.rtosoft.com/enter.asp?id=320 ********************************************************** Useful Thin Client Computing Links are available at: http://thin.net/links.cfm *********************************************************** For Archives, to Unsubscribe, Subscribe or set Digest or Vacation mode use the below link: http://thin.net/citrixlist.cfm