Finder.exe : Text find and replace utility. Created by : Dr. Rishabh Bhandari e-mail : drrbhandari@yahoo.com Usage : FINDER Command File format - line1 : line2 : line3 : line4 : Note : Input & Output filenames MUST be different. Search & replace string format : Just a normal string except when using '/' which acts as an escape character /e = cr /l = lf /t = Tab // = / /? = Any character /n = Any digit /0HH = ASCII code in hex Note : '/n' not valid in replace string. Use '/?' instead. Take a look at accompanying examples for more clarifications Example1 (ListZip.bat) -------- @echo off rem Prerequisites- Path contains Pkunzip.exe and Finder.exe echo.>archives.lst rem Empty line for finder to find rem The directory D:\Archives contains a few zip files DIR D:\ARCHIVES\*.ZIP /-p/b/s>>archives.lst echo archives.lst>command.txt echo archives.bat>>command.txt echo /e/l/?>>command.txt echo /e/lpkunzip -v /?>>command.txt Finder command.txt rem Search all cr/lf pairs replace with cr/lf+"pkunzip -v " call archives.bat del archives.bat del archives.lst del command.txt rem View names of all the files in archives