Batch file

[vmakhon1]

Hello everyone,
I have a log file on Windows 2000 machine, which collects all logs based on a date. My goal is to create a batch file, which can delete everything besides first 7-8 instances ( or lines). How can I tell the batch file to start deleting beginning with 9th, for example, line or may be after predefined date? Please, help me
Thanks
Vlad

[Sidewinder]

This little piece of doggeral will select the first nine records of the file and dump them in a new one. Batch language calculations are cheesy at best, and dates are out of the question.

Make any changes accordingly. This just illustrates technique:

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@echo off
set count=0
if exist path\newfilename del path\newfilename
for /f "tokens=1* delims=" %%i in (path\filename) do (
     set text=%%i
     call :Subr %count% %text%
     )
           
     
:Subr      
     if %count% leq 9 (echo %text% >> path\newfilename)
     set /a count=%count%+1


Good luck.