This command searches for the pattern in all *.log files, and then prints only the file names having the pattern. Print only the filenames finstr /M /C:"pattern" *.log You can add /N switch to the findstr command to print line numbers for the matched lines. Print line numbers for all the matched lines. Print only the lines where the given string is at the end of the line findstr /E /C:windows CLItips.txt You can add /B switch to indicate that the specified string should be in the beginning of the line. Print only the lines where the given string is at the beginning of the line. Adding ‘/M’ option to the command causes to print only the file names. You can customize the findstr command in the script to search in files with other extensions.
The above command searches only text files. ‘pattern.txt ‘is the file having the strings(one per line) that need to be searched for. If you need to search for multiple strings, then you can do that with the below batch script. To search all the text files in the directory C:\data: findstr /I windows C:\data\*.txt You can use wildcard ‘*” to specify that all the files in a directory should be searched for the given string.įor example, to search for ‘windows’ in all the files in the current directory, you can use the below command. findstr /R *xyz filename.txt Search for text in all the files in a current directory Search for the occurrence of all words ending with ‘xyz’ in a file. Here the pattern can be specified using regular expressions. You can use regular expressions with findstr /R switch. C indicates that the search pattern has to be matched literally.įor example, to search for the string “Apple Ball Cat” in file Book.txt, the command would be as below findstr /C:"Apple Ball Cat" Book.txt Search with Regular Expressions Search for pattern with multiple words findstr /C:"word1 word2 word3." filename This command would print a line if it has has either the word ‘Apple’ or the word ‘Orange’ or both the words.
Findstr "word1 word2 word3." filename.txt findstr "Apple Orange" fruits.txt
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