does anyone knows where you can find a good explenation of the command for (example: for /f tokens="") my os is windows xp professionalI have yet to find one myself, but I suppose this one is as good as any: FOR

This is one of those commands where experience, along with trial and error, is more helpful than any documentation.

Good luck. 8-)How could you say that Sideeeee

You were the one who explained that to me. Good link Sidewinder. MAKES me a bit frustating to see the possibilities of XP compared with NT.

I use:
Windows NT Shell Scripting from Tim HILL
(Expert insight into scripting the native NT shell for system and network administrators)
ISBN: 1-57870-047-7
30,98 Euro

Don´t know if there is a new edition for XP. But I think you still can learn a lot of this book.
Hopefully I become good somewhere along the way...

On this Website are a few BOOKS listed:
http://www.robvanderwoude.com/index.html

hope this helps
ulidoes the scripts and information that you said works to under windows xp?XP has more possibilities then NT. (more qualifiers, you can parse strings from right to left in for loops...) The scripting techniques are the same.
But I am not familiar with XP, so no guarantee if the complex examples are working correct.

uli*censored*, is there NOBODY else who haves a cursus or somethingI found this one on Rob van der Woude's hp:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0789727331/ref=sib_dp_pt/102-8428632-9751345#reader-page

It sucks really that there is less stuff availaible. They all like the scripting host etc.
You can get so many books for the bash shell but...

Good luck for your search. Please tell us if you find good stuff.

uli