Dos command find in files

Use the following expression as part of a larger expression to match any string beginning with b and ending with ing : b. To search for multiple strings in a set of files, you must create a text file that contains each search criterion on a separate line.

To find all occurrences of the word Windows with an initial capital letter W in the file proposal. To search every file in the current directory and all subdirectories that contained the word Windows , regardless of the letter case, type:. To find all occurrences of lines that begin with FOR and are preceded by zero or more spaces as in a computer program loop , and to display the line number where each occurrence is found, type:.

To list the exact files that you want to search in a text file, use the search criteria in the file stringlist. To list every file containing the word computer within the current directory and all subdirectories, regardless of case, type:.

To list every file containing the word computer and any other words that begin with comp, such as compliment and compete , type:. Skip to main content. This browser is no longer supported. For example, this doesn't work. Ross Ridge Jai Jai 3, 3 3 gold badges 21 21 silver badges 31 31 bronze badges. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes.

Mike Q Mike Q 5, 2 2 gold badges 45 45 silver badges 54 54 bronze badges. Most of the times, that's what is needed ;- — Julio Nobre. PRG You can find details about the parameters at this link.

Hope it helps! Shell 6, 10 10 gold badges 36 36 silver badges 70 70 bronze badges. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password. Post as a guest Name. If you're running Windows XP or later, consider using the improved findstr command. Find is an external command that is available for the following Microsoft operating systems as find. If a pathname is not specified, FIND searches the text typed at the prompt or piped from another command.

The next example searches for any text file. As seen in the output below, the only file containing "hope" is the CH.