Hello all, I am trying to write a batch file that will read the files in a folder on my computer. The path is O:/CustomerInvoices. Inside this folder there are 1000's of folders and each folder has three columns. What I want to do is find all records in the folder that have a date, which is in the third column, that is LESS than or equal to year 2010. I want to take the files that are in each folder and zip them with winrar and place the zip'ed files in separate folder. How do I do this? Please keep in mind that I know very little about batch files.Maybe vb, perl or powershell would be a better solution for you?definitely not a tak for batch. it might be possible... (doubtfully) but it would take a lot of work. im sure there is a better language for this.What type of files are they?Honestly, I don't have much of an idea. Since the number of records pre-2011 isn't going to change, it may be SIMPLER to just do it manually. All of the files should have a modified date..., so you may be able to use that ASSUMING that it wasn't changed since 2010. But there are a lot of variables that come into play with something like this. What I do know, is that building a script/program to do that could BECOME quite time consuming and complicated, and if it's not going to have significant benefit in the FUTURE, it doesn't sound like the right solution.

But, just in case someone feels like giving you different advice, you should tell us what kind of files these are (e.g. .txt, .rtf, .xls etc.) because that would also change the playing field a lot.