Steve

Hi Steve, I ment something like this:

truncate table infile_list

set @v_commandline = 'dir /B ' + @v_processeddest + '*.unl'

insert into infile_list

exec @result = master..xp_cmdshell @v_commandline

Where ive sent the output of the xp_cmdshell to a table for later processing.

Cheers

Chris