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Thanks again. Here's the finish code if someone may need it. @echo off set datef=%date:~10,4%%date:~4,2% for /f "delims=" %%a in ('dir *~* /b /a-d ') do ( for /f "delims=~" %%b in ("%%a") do ( if not exist "ZipFiles\%%b~Sports_%datef%.zip" 7z.exe a "ZipF...

Thank you Foxidrive the code worked!

The output should be the identifier, name and year month so
Example:
id001~Sports_YYYYMM
id001~Sports_201408

Yes every text file will start with the identifier and tilda character at the end and all files are in the same folder. Example: id001~testfilebasketball.txt id001~testfilebaseball.txt id001~testfilehockey.txt id001~testfilesoccer.txt id001~testfilefootball.txt id002~testfilebasketball.txt id002~tes...

I'm new to the forum, I hope to learn a great deal from this community. I have a folder with 600 text files, I'm looking to zip together files with similar identifiers. So for instance I have 10 files with id001~ as the identifier, those 10 will be zipped in the same directory and so forth. So far I...