Windows Commands: Searches for a text string in a file or files.


find-Windows Command

find command - Searches for a text string in a file or files.

Description:-
A filter to find lines in the input data stream that contains or don't contain a specified string and send these to the output data stream.
Syntax:-
Find may also be used as a pipe.

find "keyword" < ''inputfilename'' > ''outputfilename''

Searches for a text string in a file or files.

FIND [/V] [/C] [/N] [/I] "string" [[drive:][path]filename[ ...]]

  /V        Displays all lines NOT containing the specified string.
  /C        Displays only the count of lines containing the string.
  /N        Displays line numbers with the displayed lines.
  /I        Ignores the case of characters when searching for the string.
  "string"  Specifies the text string to find.
[drive:][path]filename Specifies a file or files to search.

If a pathname is not specified, FIND searches the text typed at the prompt or piped from another command.

Equivalent to the Unix command grep. The Unix command find performs an entirely different function.

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